Child in the Picture

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The sun begins to set on the Mediterranean, the sands clench onto droplets of sea water that has sprayed inland. Night security take shift around the Inn.
Vlad, the Inn Keeper brings food to the foyer for the group. They are all still standing as Caulfield finishes the sorted tale of their past.

Nyal looks closer at the book, and grips the table. The table shakes and a surge of anger flows through his temples.
The book falls to the floor, and the sign comes off its wall hook alarming everyone.

"What the fuck man?" Caulfield says

"Are you ok Nyal?" Daphne replies

Nyal leans down and picks up the book, his hand is jittering and his face goes more pale than usual. He points to a man in the back of the funeral service.

"Doesn't he look familiar to you all?" Nyal says with contempt.
Augusta gets close to the picture and gasps, "It's Dean Nevets!"

"We have to go to my house, there's something I think we or you should take a look at before Interpol gets it!" Nyal says in almost a whimper. Spencer throws him the keys to his Jeep, lead the way dude he says. They all jump in.

Nyal opens the main doors of his Villa Home

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Nyal opens the main doors of his Villa Home. Security is posted outside, and no staff were allowed in the home unless young Nyal approved. The group follows behind him, in almost amazement at the luxury of the Villa.

"I didn't know you too were loaded?" Augusta says in almost an approving way.

"Why, does that matter?" Nyal replies. To which Daphne smiles indicating to the others that yea this guy is alright.

The door to Kirk's study is locked, only Nyal could open it

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The door to Kirk's study is locked, only Nyal could open it. He hands the key over to Spencer because his hands and now whole body was shaking. Caulfield offers him some coke, Nyal politely declines.

There on the desk sits the document, Nyal goes to it and opens it for all to see.

"Me and the Mann Child" though it appears there could be a smudge across the word Man to look like it had two N's.
Daphne and Spencer read through some of it and can't really make sense of it. There are a lot of blueprints, numbers possibly to offshore bank accounts and contacts mostly in Spanish.

"Doesn't this all seem off to you guys?"

"How so Nyal?" (Daphne inquires)

"My father said all of your names to me, he knew who you were. Then this secret document, seemingly ties into some sort of Spanish Inquisition which leads to his murder??"

Augusta picks up a picture from Kirk's book shelf and slowly walks over to Nyal.

"Is... this... you?"

Nyal looks at it and says it is, it was taken when he was like five or something. Augusta shows the others. Each one looks at Nyal in disbelief.

"What is it?" He says

"Neil Mann, was a classmate of ours in Primaria. He died while saving Marigold, or so they said! This boy is him, and oh my god it's you?"

Spencer looks at the document again;
"ME= Marigold Everly and the Mann child is you Nyal!"

In that moment Nyal realizes that his whole life has been a cover up, and that's why his father moved them around all the time. Even his name was changed.

"My father was somehow involved in all of this!"

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