It was like you have given water to a man stranded in the middle of a desert, those three words sounded like a musical symphony to me, like a whole orchestra played in my ear. I quickly turn to see whose mouth was the one that said those three divine words to see a man, no taller than 6 feet, wearing a long coat and a scarf that covers his nose and mouth leaning against the hotel wall. Oh, thank god were three words that I had no control over coming out of my mouth. “You are the first person I have heard speaking since I came to this town,” I said to him, “Yeah, people here don’t speak at all, I am the only one who you will find speaking a single word here,” he said to me while his eyes examined me, I asked him how was I supposed to communicate to people here like how should I ask for say, directions, “You can just ask me and if you want to communicate to other people carry a notebook and a pen” he replied now his eyes back to gazing the dark blue sky that was a staple of this town. “Okay, I am looking for my sister here, any idea where I can find her? She studies at the university here.” He left the calming support of the hotel at took two steps until he was standing right next to me, his hand extended pointing to my right, I looked at his arm as it was right in front of my eyes noticing he had only three fingers, thumb, index finger, and the ring finger, then I looked at the point his extended was pointing towards, “That’s the girl's dorm if she lives in this town you will find her there, otherwise she could be living in any of the nearby towns, if that’s the case you will have to wait for her at the university, which is closed and won’t open for another week.” I thanked him for his help and started walking towards the dorm.

If you have been to other countries you might know this at the very least one person notices you and turns around to have a better look at you making you feel like a celebrity for a small moment, Kryo was a little different in this aspect, I might as well have been invisible as no one batted an eye as I walked the cold, stony streets, I don’t think Kryo is a famous destination amongst the tourist of the country but the people acted as if they were as usual as snow is in Antarctica. A thirty-six-year-old foreigner standing in front of a girl’s dormitory doesn’t get a single look, god what kind of a city is this. I enter the dorm with the intention of finding my sister and getting her out of this god-awful city, as I enter I see a long hallway with doors on both sides probably leading into rooms, I don’t see anyone, I shouted to ask if anyone was there but to no avail, I had forgotten for a hot minute that gluing your lips together was the hip new fashion of this town, and I didn’t intend on standing there was hours, so I just let myself in. I knock on the first door, still no response so I open the door to see if anyone was inside, a usual university dorm room, a single bed, posters, one window, a study desk with books and a laptop on it and a girl hanging upside down from the ceiling, what do these townsfolk smoke and why wasn’t I given some as soon as I entered.

I walked up to her, even though I was a foreign element invading her homeland, just like the other people in this weird town she doesn’t care. I took out my notebook and pen and started to write, asking her the whereabouts of my sister. Is she blind I thought as I waved the book in front of her, she was like a person in a very dark room without a single match. I snapped my fingers twice after which she finally gave me some much-needed attention, she read the note and started writing. The note she wrote to me told me that she did live in this dorm but hadn’t come here in a month. I walked out of there leaving her to drown in her own misery or whatever else kids do these days.

As I exited the dorm the thought what I was supposed to do next entered my mind. Impetuously my feet started walking towards my hotel and didn’t stop until I was in front of my hotel bed at which point my body collapsed on the bed, I spent the rest of the day looking at the hotel ceiling.

Police Report- The disappearance of Kryo.