Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Previously (at) the One-K theatre, we left Detective-Captain Anton Rilke and Inspector-Jefe Carlos Delgado watch as blood-stained pieces of a puzzle came together, the image forming very different than the one they’d pictured, [Click Here]
Hey! You’re still here, write? You thinkin’: what’s this Doctrine guy going on about… a story that has already started, a bloghop challenge… using photos?!!
Yep. Welcome to the Unicorn Challenge. Each week, jenne and ceayr offer a photo and issue a dare. Using the photo as a prompt/starting point/TAT image write a story. The challenge? Do it in 250 words or less.
“Wait, what is that?”
Anton Rilke, an almost-noticeable slant favoring his left leg stared down at the expanse of granite tiles. Worn smooth by millions of feet crossing it to enter the cathedral, the plaza was currently littered with red-plastic markers, each numbered with iridescent-white numerals. The slightest elevation of his left eyebrow was the only outward sign of reaction. Whether it was the fact that the marker was number 87 or his increasing respect for the local constabulary’s attention to detail, remained private.
Inspector Delgado, hooking the yell0w-crime-scene tape up with his right arm, stepped closer to his Interpol liaison, looked down and hesitated. A shadow of doubt hid in slightly-furrowed brows, cleared as he said, “I believe it’s a severed hand. By size and proportion, that of a man.” Looking over the field of markers and tape that almost blocked the plaza before it narrowed and crenelated upwards into a staircase, continued “The rest of him is, collectively, covering the area in front of us.”
“Nein, Señor Delgado, I’m referring to that red mark next to the hand,” the German detective crouched with a grace very much in contrast to his physical size and pointed towards a mark,
“Mein Gott im Himmel.”
Not requiring translation, the Spanish police officer, deciding to alter the balance of his relationship with Interpol, “The blood it is written in is not from the not-mourned, currently disassembled Señor Alphonso. But you knew that already, did you not?”