Jenna closed the laptop.
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The cursor blinked on the dark screen, patient and indifferent. Searching for- alycia starr in-All CategoriesMo...
Maps showed nothing. No recent location. No check-ins. Just an old pin at an apartment they’d shared on North Sycamore. The street view showed a different couch on the porch now.
She moved to News . Nothing recent. A profile of Alycia’s band from a college radio station. A brief mention in a missing persons database— last seen March 14, 2019 . Jenna had filed that report. She knew the date better than her own birthday. Jenna closed the laptop
The cursor blinked.
Jenna clicked Images first. Alycia at a protest in Portland, 2017. Alycia behind a counter at a record store that closed four years ago. Alycia in a faded green sweatshirt, arm around someone whose face was blurred for privacy. Jenna zoomed in on the sweatshirt. She’d bought that for Alycia at a flea market. She remembered the vendor saying, “This’ll outlive you.” No recent location
Videos showed a low-quality clip of Alycia playing an open mic. The sound was terrible, the guitar slightly out of tune. Jenna watched it three times. Alycia’s fingers moved like water over the strings.