Meanwhile, in another part of town we find
Beverly, standing in front of a pinboard-mounted map of Gulf Haven and surrounding areas. Some coloured pins protrude from the map.
Bev is an 11-year-old brunette girl with an insatiable curiosity and a knack for taking stuff apart and reconfiguring it in bizarre ways. She also fancies herself as a bit of a mystery solver.
The media coverage of the strange bird behavior around Gulf Haven has not gone unnoticed by her. But something tells her the Sheriff and his 'experts' are on the wrong track.
[ +- ] Media on Bird Incidents
She also recently read about a bunch of local kids in the same 'line of work' from a newspaper article.
[ +- ] The Article
LOCAL SCHOOL KIDS FIND MISSING BOY
by Chuck Lafayette
Readers will certainly remember our coverage of the disappearance of young Davey Jenkins, aged 10, a few days ago, from his house in Gulf Haven.
[Photo of Davey Jenkins, from the School Yearbook]
The story found a happy ending thanks to the courage and commitment of three local young heroes, Cody Brewster (12), Logan Henry (11), and Alana Patterson (11). We went to meet the young heroes on the scene of the rescue (Cody Brewster was not there, injured in an unrelated fall - to him, our best wishes for a speedy recovery!).
Concerned about the missing friend, who attended their same Booker T. Washington Elementary School, the group decided to run their own search, asking Logan's older sister Anna (17) to drive them to Donner Lake, where they had last seen Davey.
"Basically, my brother and his friends had a hunch Davey could be here, as they had seen him recently around the lake. They really insisted I drive them here," says Anna.
They were able to find Davey's bicycle tracks in the surrounding woods and followed them to the bike itself, that was hidden in a hole in the ground under an old tree.
[Photo of the rescuers around the hole under the tree, with their dog]
"I went inside and it was creepy and it seems like the perfect home for a creepy crawly monster," said Alana, a spirited girl with a fervid imagination, "but then we heard Davey from over there where he was on top of a tree."
From there, the brave quartet found a scared Davey Jenkins in the branches of said tree, where he had climbed - apparently scared by some noises - and from where he was afraid of climbing down for the height.
"He was stuck on that branch there," said Logan, who climbed up to help Davey down. Logan demonstrated this by nimbly climbing to the high branch for us.
[Photo of Logan on the tree branch]
"Then the police also came and we saved the day," Alana concluded.
And the day they saved indeed, as Davey was reunited with his Mom, to her great relief. Mrs. Jenkins commented how grateful she is to the four brave searchers for returning her son. Davey was missing for a total of nine hours.
Our newspaper joins Mrs. Jenkins in celebrating these young brave Gulf Haven heroes. What wonderful news to share with our readers on Independence Day!
She was surprised to notice
Cody Brewster's name in the piece. That guy lives in the same trailer park as Bev and her Grandma, and is usually a lot of trouble.
OOC:
@Dunko give us your intro to the character. Where is Bev, and how is she going about tracking the unnatural gatherings of birds?
Welcome to the Monster Hunters Club!
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