Flintkote
Copyright© 2020 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 10
Ceiling was dissecting s piece of Hunter Salami. Analyzing the ingredients, he thought he was ready to try. Pork, beef, mustard seed and mustard powder, salt ... kosher is best ... no iodine. It didn’t taste right. The Smell was right though.
Humming to himself, he tried again ... Ah ... dill weed ... a bunch, missed that the first time ... a trace of apple cider vinegar, water, corn starch, milk, Still wasn’t it. He cheated ... looked it up on the internet.
“Starter Culture? What in the Hell is that? Ah ... secret ingredient ... I hate it when they do that ... and natural smoke ... What kind of smoke? Wood smoke ... yeah ... sure ... hickory? Mesquite? Apple? Cherry?” He tried them all. Still not right.
“Black mustard seed?” Yes! Nope.
“This is a job for Cassie Flintkote.” He surveyed the throng, No Cassie. He looked in all the obvious places ... then the not so obvious. After that he looked in the closets ... and under the stairs. “Has anyone seen Cassie?”
Eva Caretaker Coordinator said, “I was just going to ask you the same thing.”
Ya know ... people are people. Doesn’t matter how intelligent an Artificial Intelligence is ... they ain’t human. Eva organized a search party. No Cassie. Eva asked the guardians on Cassandra. They searched diligently The entire planet looked. Nope.
Since JW Flintkote and Billy Mc Williams were not to be found on Crossroads, Krys and Tyche went home ... to the boat.
Guess who was the third person they saw?” Nope ... not Daddy ... Nope ... not Surprise ... yup ... Cassie.
Cassie got a hug.
“You know ... they’re searching all Cassandra for you.” And that got grins.
Back on Crossroads, Ceiling was involved in a mystery. WHAT KIND OF WOOD SMOKE!
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