"Its my daughter Sarah, she keeps going into the woods for long periods of time," Christine said with a sigh. "Its not that unusual, I mean she's always been a bit adventurous, but she's been staying out for hours and hours, even missing meals on several occasions. When she does get home she doesn't even seem hungry."
"Weird," you said. "Have you ever tried asking her what she's been doing in the forest?"
"Yeah, but she's not given me any sort of straight answer," Christine said with a shake of her head. "The police haven't done anything because they don't see what the problem is. I thought maybe you'd be able to shed light on it."
"Well, if she's been vanishing into the forest and coming back that could be a lot of things," you said and looked thoughtful for a moment. "What else can you tell me, has her behavior changed any since this happened?"
"Well, she's dumped her boyfriend, but he's not exactly a good kid so no real harm there," Christine said with a shrug. "But she's been more distant to me lately, and yesterday I started blacking out on occasion and I'd..."
She paused a moment and looked at you as she tried to decide how to put this into words. "What is it? You know you can tell me whatever it is, right?"
"I found myself naked and laying in my backyard," she said and shook her head a little. "Sarah wasn't anywhere to be found and she returned later. I don't really know what might've happened."
You paused and thought for a moment, there was a few things that could explain that kind of thing. You thought about it for a moment before nodding and looked at her. "Alright, I'll take the case."
"Thank you, if you could come tomorrow that would be great," she said and you nodded in agreement.
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The next day you and Rusty were outside the house on a stake out. You were waiting to see what was going to happen now, it was pretty early in the morning and you were both tired and drinking coffee.
That's when you saw the back door open and an 18 year old girl with short brown hair left the house. She walked past you both as if she was in a trance, that had to be her daughter, what was going on now? Also you had to keep an eye on Christine given that she was also blacking out.
You and Rusty had to make a decision quickly as to who would do what.