They say that out here are spirits from prehistoric times. There’s certainly little else. And rarely people. So when a naked body is found stretched out under their art, we start to wonder if they were involved.
And there it was, laid out as if a sacrifice to the stars. Certainly not for the lighting rigs and teams of police carefully combing the area for clues. Anything that would back up what she could tell us herself.
“Detective, she’s ready,” someone said.
I approached her spirit as it floated above its former home, introduced and explained myself before asking, “Did you see who did this to you?”
We couldn’t understand her answer. It was a language none of us understood.
And that was when they came to reclaim her.
Stone Age people surrounded us, approached her, picked up the body and took it away.
We packed up and went home none the wiser. My first unexplained case.
Written for Flash! Friday from the following picture prompt (we were also asked to write outside of our usual genre - I went for Supernatural Crime) and had a word count limit of 150-160 Words.
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