Corwin is oblivious to the hunt that happened here, but the scratches and words do catch his attention. After finding them two days in a row, he starts hunting through the park with a notebook in the afternoons, writing down everything he finds, in as much of an order as he can make out. He winds up spending most of his free time there when it's not raining to heavily, captivated and, slowly, concerned by the not-conversation.
He tries leaving a couple notes of his own, too: "Hello :) " on Thursday next to an innocuous snippet, "Don't kill anyone :( " on Saturday morning opposite the tree with the word "trophy", and "Can I help you?" on Sunday below the bullet hole message. Yes, the happy and frowny faces are included.
II. Frost
He spots the frost while working, and stops by again on his way home before his trips to the park and on his walks to the dump to pick up his truck pre-dawn on weekday mornings, pausing to examine it, to tap on it, and try to peer through it. It's like the frost he met Avere and Edda at, and that makes him curious. He attempts to sketch it, adding it to his notebook of park-conversation, but his artistic ability is not really very good, so he settles for a photograph or two on his phone, just to see if it changes between visits at all.
III. Etc
On the rainiest evenings, Corwin stays in, to visit with Malin before she goes out for the night, work on his experiments, peruse the internet, watch movies on the local equivalent of Netflix, and maybe exchange text messages with the few people who actually have his phone number. If Avere contacts him again, he'll share his photos of the frosted portals; otherwise, he searches Network Zero for what other people have to say about them, or the words in the park.
OTA
Corwin is oblivious to the hunt that happened here, but the scratches and words do catch his attention. After finding them two days in a row, he starts hunting through the park with a notebook in the afternoons, writing down everything he finds, in as much of an order as he can make out. He winds up spending most of his free time there when it's not raining to heavily, captivated and, slowly, concerned by the not-conversation.
He tries leaving a couple notes of his own, too: "Hello :) " on Thursday next to an innocuous snippet, "Don't kill anyone :( " on Saturday morning opposite the tree with the word "trophy", and "Can I help you?" on Sunday below the bullet hole message. Yes, the happy and frowny faces are included.
II. Frost
He spots the frost while working, and stops by again on his way home before his trips to the park and on his walks to the dump to pick up his truck pre-dawn on weekday mornings, pausing to examine it, to tap on it, and try to peer through it. It's like the frost he met Avere and Edda at, and that makes him curious. He attempts to sketch it, adding it to his notebook of park-conversation, but his artistic ability is not really very good, so he settles for a photograph or two on his phone, just to see if it changes between visits at all.
III. Etc
On the rainiest evenings, Corwin stays in, to visit with Malin before she goes out for the night, work on his experiments, peruse the internet, watch movies on the local equivalent of Netflix, and maybe exchange text messages with the few people who actually have his phone number. If Avere contacts him again, he'll share his photos of the frosted portals; otherwise, he searches Network Zero for what other people have to say about them, or the words in the park.