Talk of the City
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In the shiny streets of Tornic, it's not an uncommon occurrence for those who stick their noses in the wrong place or ask the wrong questions to disappear. It's also not an uncommon occurrence for their loved ones to at least want to have some closure about what happened and that's where Close usually ends up in the picture.
That's what his newest case looks like, pretty standard except for how weird the client is.
He doesn't know that this case will be his last either.
(This story was made for an assignment in a class and part of the assignment was making a storyboard so all of the images used[including the current and placeholder image for the cover until I draw or make something] were made for the storyboard. The drawings are mine but the random stock images on, around, or behind them are not).
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