Everything threatens to collapse
What happened so far:
Mia Novak works at the Frost & Flamme restaurant, where, after a busy evening, she is overwhelmed by the prospect of a double shift at a charity dinner. During the event, which is also attended by the mayor, she notices strange goings-on that ultimately lead to a police interview, as the restaurant becomes a crime scene. The days that follow are stressful for Mia as the police continue to question her statement. One evening, she finds a disturbing message in her locker saying that both songs and witnesses can be silenced. Despite the oppressive situation, she continues to work while having to process the threatening events.
The name of the man, whom the newspaper presented in the morning as the "alleged perpetrator", hit Mia like a cold breeze. She knew him. Not good, but enough to know that something was wrong. In her memory, he stood far away from the scene in which the evening tipped.
In the break room, the newspaper lay open on the table, coffee stains next to the headline. Someone had scribbled a small devil squirrel on the photo with a ballpoint pen. Laughing was cheaper than thinking.
Mia did not sit down. She leaned in the doorway, feeling the familiar, comfortable silence of her silence change into something else. In complicity. In complicity in a story that was just about to take on a life of its own.
In the night the dream came: the walk backstage, Jonas' figure, the other man, the jerking, the fall. And above it like a penetrating soundtrack this song, which she had otherwise always suppressed. She woke up with a pounding heart and a clear thought: If she didn't say anything, someone would pay for something they hadn't done.
The next day, she asked for a conversation with the investigator on her own initiative. The words came haltingly, but they came. A glass that stood differently. A shadow that didn't fit the story everyone wanted to hear.
With every detail she revealed, she pulled back the rug under the feet of a false suspect – and under her own.
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