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> BOARD / MISSING PERSONS / MISSING-JOSS

MISSING: Joss Ferrier, 9, Sector 3, last seen by the old waterworks

7 MESSAGES. OPENED BY LAMPLIGHTER 2061-10-10 19:22

  1. 2061-10-10 19:22

    My little brother Joss went out for water on the 8th and didn't come back. He's nine, small, brown hair, a gap in his front teeth and a red knitted hat that Mum made. He knows the tunnels near as well as I do. Please, if anyone has seen him, anything at all.

  2. 2061-10-10 19:40

    Posting his description on the MAGPIE wall now, love. Every runner in Sector 4 will have it by morning.

  3. 2061-10-10 21:05

    I'll check the Bureau intake manifests we lifted last month for any child from Sector 3. Lamplighter, anyone who turns up claiming to be Joss or claiming to know where he is gets a pulse check before they get your trust. I'm sorry to say it. It's how they work.

  4. 2061-10-11 05:48

    Kestrel sweep over the waterworks on the 8th, 18:00 to 18:40. No harvest. No Tithe in range. I was on the chimney the whole time. If he was taken, it wasn't from the street.

  5. 2061-10-11 06:30

    Thank you. That's something. Mum says thank you too. That means below ground, and below ground is mine.

  6. 2061-10-12 22:10

    Two of my brothers will walk the aquifer galleries with you tomorrow. Armour on, lamps lit. We do not leave children in the dark.

  7. 2061-10-13 16:54

    FOUND HIM. He was in an old service chamber behind a Lamprey collapse, three days, drinking seep water and eating the candles. He's thin and cross and he's kept the hat. Thank you, all of you, thank you. I'm never letting him fetch water again.

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