Thursday 14 August 2014

An observed story - part 8

Yesterday I saw a large builder wedged into the small space between a wall and the railings. He wasn't actually stuck but I think that was more by luck than judgement. Since we know Peter is a big guy I guess we now know he's a builder. Following this thread of the story, today I saw two men repairing the pavement with two little lads watching their every move with delightful facination. Made me think of Peter and Evan as children and an older influence in Peter's life that made him want to be a builder, whereas Evan followed in the footsteps of our magician - or tried at least; he can't perform any of the tricks that were left to him. Could these two builders be our magician's travelling companions? I like to think maybe they build the tricks for him.

Skipping to a different thread, yesterday I saw two women chatting away and as they passed me I heard "I don't know whether I can trust what's true and what's not after what he said." Not the best formed sentence but it gives us something. We have two women again so we're still not sure if this is Sarah and a friend or two separate women that were at Peter's birthday bash. One of them has trust issues with one of the guys, but which one. All we know about Gareth is that he punched someone so it could be him, Peter has been falsely imprisoned and Evan knows he's innocent but would you believe their pleas, and Phil stole Peter's girlfriend so he's clearly untrustworthy! We can add to this another act of untrustworthyness as I just witnessed a man trying to use a credit card that wasn't his. He was claiming it was his mother's so we know the card belonged to a woman, but whose card is it and who was trying to use it?

Tuesday 12 August 2014

An observed story part 7

A while back on my travels I encountered two men, probably in their late 60's - early 70's travelling with a younger man in his late teens to early 20's. One of the older men was jokingly protesting that it wasn't the same having the youngster tagging along, "now they can't call us the Grey-Team!" They changed trains, the same as me, and met up with a third older man of about the same age and the bloke made the same joke again. Made me wonder if one of these older men is our magician?  And was the younger man either Evan or Peter? Had one of them shown an interest in following in the magicians footsteps before he died? To many blanks at the moment,  I guess we'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime I witnessed something else today, a lad turned up at the train station,  exclaimed "ah where are they" and disappeared making a phone call as he walked. He came back to catch the train but he was still on his own. Made me wonder if one of the lads gets lost on our chaotic night out. We know it's not Phil, he goes home with Sarah. Sounds like the kind of thing that would happen to Evan but I guess it could have been Peter or Gareth. More blanks to fill.