Ch.2 Quinn's Precarious Decision

The problem with hats for a disguise lies in it being niether perpetual nor entirly persuasive. If, for example, your pursuer were a stranger who was trying to return a gum wrapper (which contained a phone number along with encoded instructions) that you dropped, your pursuer would be disoriented by your disguise. The result thus being you never received your encoded instructions and the person you were supposed to meet begins to believe you dead.

However, if your pursuer is a cold hearted woman with a glass eye, a permanently furrowed brow and a scar from her left temple to the top of her left lip (a scar you had given her in the past), your pursuer would soon see through your disguise and begin her malignant scheme.

Of this fact, Quinn was very well aware.

As Quinn took the hand of her neighbor to begin a swing, she felt a gumwrapper pressed into her hand. Momentarily distracted, she looked up at him and he smiled down at her.

"It's a bit stormy tonight, eh?" Was all he said to her.

Quinn had never seen this man in her life, but she knew the meaning of those words. Number One: she was not alone. Number Two: Something hadn't gone wrong. Everything had gone wrong. Accepting the gum wrapper was sign of trust. Trust was not something Quinn gave away easily.

Hesitantly, Quinn took the wrapper. And as this stranger swung her around, Quinn saw her mistake. The wrapper had not been meant for her...