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@mememeup:something
@nononycky:maybe it’s another deer
@pawsandclaws:not funny @nononycky
@mememeup:It looks like a backpack or something
@badprincess:ugh @bassicrhythm can you ask your cousin??
@mememeup:wait no
@mememeup:not a backpack
@mememeup:a duffel bag
@mememeup:yellow and black
@badprincess:like a Woodward duffel bag????
@hannahbanana:did Lucy even have a Woodward duffel bag?
@mememeup:not sure
@mememeup:but Nina Faraday did
Seven
The discovery of Nina Faraday’s dance team bag during a search party organized for Lucy Vale almost broke the internet. It was so extraordinary, so unprecedented, that rumors immediately began circulating that the entire search effort had been orchestrated by an anonymous tipper who knew where Nina’s bag had been dumped. We even wondered if Lucy Vale was said tipper. We thought she might have reported that a girl who matched her description was walking north along the creek—not because we had any hard evidence but because it fit with the picture of Lucy we were reassembling.
Even then, after everything that had happened, Lucy Vale was still malleable—more so now that she was gone, occupying a blank space we could populate with our imaginations.
Maybe, we thought, Lucy Vale had planned the whole thing. Maybe even with Rachel Vale’s help.
@gustagusta:it’s brilliant. Think about it.
@gustagusta:burn the mascot and get the police looking for you
@gustagusta:then disappear
@gustagusta:then point the cops to Nina Faraday’s duffel bag instead
@pawsandclaws:if the Vales knew where Nina’s stuff was dumped, why wouldn’t they just say so?
@gustagusta:maybe they didn’t think the cops would listen
@bassicrhythm:that seems highly unlikely
@gustagusta:really? Does it?
@safireswiftly:idk. I mean, is Lucy reallyThatdevious?
@safireswiftly:she couldn’t even keep up with the dance choreography
@safireswiftly:even when it was just twerking
@spinn_doctor:Lucy’s just a patsy
@spinn_doctor:my money’s on the mom
