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Chapter 29 - Crimes in the Mist

In the first 30 days of the curfew, life was relatively normal in the Layered City. Most of the time the mist was just something that people could bring up in conversation during the day, or something that would be heard discussed in late night broadcasts. After about 30 days however, people would be come restless and things would change quickly.

The authorities said they were able to figure out the means to control the weather and created a dense fog throughout the upper levels of the Layered City every day at the start of curfew to make it more difficult to stay out if one decided to.

The idea was to keep people safe in their homes after a certain time when the most disappearances would take place.

When it was announced, most citizens decided a curfew every day and literally changing the weather seemed to be excessive rules, but they also decided at least the people were being kept safe.

The problem with this thought is people were not safer. Other crimes were starting to happen in Natovis. Here are the different types:

There were small gangs of "enforcers" that walked around trying to make sure everyone was complying with the curfew. These people were not endorsed by the authorities, but were citizens that would do anything from shout at people to outright beat up anyone they could find who had not listened to the curfew laws.

The second type crime was similar to the first type except these people were not attempting to look out for the public. They would go around and harass, steal from, and sometimes even commit violence upon people who would stay out past curfew. The dense fog made it easy to commit crimes one would not normally be able to commit. There was no way to catch these criminals.

The third type was more of these unsolved disappearances of people that had been happening for over two decades now. A few of these could be the second type of crime, but authorities are just about certain the disappearances are all from whatever had caused the crimes that existed before the curfew. What made this type of crime even more scary was that it was adapting. There were no reports of people disappearing from their homes until now.

Now that just about everyone was inside of their homes by four o'clock before the thick mist begins, people were disappearing from their homes. There are daily reports of members of households waking up and someone not being there in the morning.

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