Zoey Bent

Unsurprisingly, Nettlebrook hasn't changed much since I left. In a lot of ways. I will be making a seperate post about all those ways soon, but first I want to talk about the one that most disturbs me.

Here it is: Disappearances. All of them technically unsolved, and yet all of them closed cases. It's suspicious too that the police chief has been a Hawthorne since long before I arrived here 20 years ago (Nettlebrook tends to keep things in the family--more on that in my next post).

18-year-old Zoey Bent went missing at the tail end of her senior year at Bogwick Academy. I have not been able to look at her case file despite the fact that it is a closed case, not an ongoing investigation, and therefore is a part of public record. Rumors state she was ruled a runaway, despite the fact there is no apparent evidence that could lead to such a conclusion (however, I don't have all the facts on hand, so I can't say for sure whether the police department is really justified or not).

If I could somehow get a list of all the missing persons in Nettlebrook... It must exist somewhere. Likely not on the Internet (Most people over 30 here have an issue with using the Internet--in fact, the only public places that have computers here are Brooks College and Nettlebrook University, the two colleges here). I know they wouldn't allow me access, especially with my record here. Maybe if I got in contact with the Native reservation not far from here, they could share with me their record, since, from what I can remember, many missing persons were actually from their reservation, not just Nettlebrook.

I will certainly investigate more into this. Updates shall abound.