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Pelican Peak Island Scarlett Jo Hanson Mystery

Pelican Peak Island Scarlett Jo Hanson Mystery

Sylvia Russell

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Scarlett has been assigned to the Pelican Peak Island case. Small children with terminal illness are being kidnapped. Scarlett receives clues from the supernatural to solve the case. Can she save the children? What are they doing with them?

Chapter 1 Sunset Beach

Scarlett and Brad were having a romantic day on the Sunset Beach. They were lying on blanket watching the pelicans fly in the sky. Scarlett enjoyed watching the pelicans soar in flight. They would catch large fish with the bill-tip, then tosses them up into the air to be caught and eaten. Scarlett thought it was amazing to see the birds find the fish while soaring in flight. Fly down into the water and catch them. She wondered how a bird could see the fish from so far in the air.

They sit for hours on the beach watching the pelicans run over the water while beating their big wings and pounding the surface of the water with both feet in unison to get enough speed to takeoff. It was amazing to watch the pelicans throw back their heads back open their beaks and swallow the fish whole. The telephone rang it was Colonel Andrews. A baby was missing, and Scarlett would have to return to work.

Scarlett went to the supermarket and requested to review the video footage of the parking lot. On the footage a blue van was seen, driving by the shopping. After the van left Steve was no longer in the shopping cart he had been abducted. From the review of the footage the tag number could not be seen. Scarlett was walking outside of the supermarket into the park lot at the location of the abduction. She had a déjà vu experience. Although people interpret déjà vu in a paranormal context, mainstream scientific approaches reject the explanation of déjà vu as precognition or prophecy. Rather, they explain it as the feeling that one has lived through the present situation before. Despite the keen sense of recollection, the time, place, and practical context of the previous experience are uncertain or believed to be impossible. The parking lot was no longer a parking lot it was a wooded area. Scarlett saw a man taking a baby to a alter to worship God. After worshiping God. The man gathered wood and placed it on the alter. Then the baby boy was laid on top of the wood and tied to the alter. The baby was going to be used as a sacrifice to God. Sacrifice is an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure. The man was standing over the baby with a dagger.

A dagger is a knife with a very sharp point and usually two sharp edges, designed for being used as a thrusting or stabbing weapon. Daggers have been throughout human history for close combat confrontations. cultures have used daggers in ritual and ceremonial contexts. The Scarlett was left wondering if the boy was going to be sacrificed or circumcised.

Scarlett took the video footage from the supermarket to the crime lab for analysis. The van was identified as a 1972 Ford Econoline van. The crime lab enlarged the image of the van on a monitor. On the bumper of the van was a sticker “Tiny Treasures Milk Bank.” Scarlett researched the name “Tiny Treasures Milk Bank.” which is a place to donate Breast Milk. Breast milk is something only a mother can do. It is a generous gift that can truly have influence in the lives of fragile infants who are in the NICU. Breast milk has been proven to be beneficial for all babies, but when it comes to babies who were born prematurely, it can be a lifesaver. Breast milk provides a protective effect against respiratory illnesses, ear infections, gastrointestinal diseases, and allergies. Often mothers of premature infants have a tough time providing their own breast milk. The donor milk can prove nutrients that meet the baby’s additional needs. Steve was abducted not Jan. What was the connection? Was Steve abducted by the “Tiny Treasures Milk Bank” for research? Was Steve being sacrificed, circumcised, or used for research?

Scarlett walked into her office and had a déjà vu experience. Scarlett was walking along the bank of a river, and she saw an ark among the rushes. She waded into the water and recovered the ark. When she opened the ark a three-month-old baby boy was inside crying. Scarlett turned to her sister and stated, “Go and find a woman that she may nurse the baby.” Her sister returned with a woman to nurse the baby. The woman took the baby and nursed it. After the baby grew, he was returned to the Scarlett and became her son. Scarlett had no idea what all the déjà vu experience meant. Scarlett knew it was for a reason. To help her find Steve.

Scarlett returned home off duty. She had planned as night with the family, her husband Brad, daughters Katie, and Allison. Family Night was set aside once a week to have pizza and watch a movie with the children. It was a special night for the family. The children loved pizza and they chose “Chicken Run” as the movie to watch. The film tells a tale of a close-knit community of chickens “imprisoned” on a farm in England. Ginger, the leader of the hens, attempts to escape times, but she is caught. Rocky, a charming rooster who appears to know how to fly, drops onto the farm. He stays and teaches the chickens to fly. The chickens all work together to get themselves off the farm. All the chickens show their love for each other by working together. The children loved the movie. Scarlett and Brad told the girls how they were blessed to have them.

After the movie was over the children went to bed. Brad and Scarlett sit and talked for hours about how the girls meant to them. Remembering the night, they were born. They reminisced about the first time the children walked, first word, first day of school, the memories of the children filled Scarlett and Brad with happiness. A happiness that could lonely be experienced by parents. As the night hours passed Scarlett became sleepy. She went into bedroom and looked at the dream catcher that Ms. Daisy had given her. It was still on the wall above her bed. Scarlett went to sleep and began to dream.

Scarlett dreamed of walking through the woods and seeing a man with a baby boy at the alter praying. The man waked around a gathered wood to build a fire on the alter. Steve was tied to the alter with rope. The man had a dagger in his hand. He held the dagger over his head. Scarlett heard Steve crying. She stood there speechless and could not move. The man started to kill Steve. Suddenly a messenger from God stops him before the sacrifice finishes, saying “Now I know you fear God.” The man looks up and sees a ram and sacrifices it instead of Steve. Scarlett woke up with tears running down her face. Her heart was pounding. She was afraid.

Scarlett immediately walked into the girl's bedroom to make sure they were all right. Scarlett was afraid to go back to sleep that night. She stayed in the bedroom with the girls until sunrise. She then went into the kitchen and cooked breakfast for Brad and the girls. It was rare for Scarlett to cook breakfast for the family on a weekday. They usually had cereal for breakfast with a glass of juice. Scarlett called Jan and requested for her to come to the station for an interview.

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