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3rd floor of the long stay car park is cool and quiet compared to the busy terminal. Jacob finds his car and dumps his luggae in the boot (trunk) then drops into his driving seat, fumbles momentarily with his keys and leans his head back agaianst the headrest with some relief as the engine bursts into life...

Jacob's trapped, every door in the house is locked, every window barred, there's no way to climb onto the roof. The house is large and well furnished, but there is no way out for him. He runs from room to room, searching, but each door he pulls open has only a featureless brick wall behind it. Eventually he come to the front door, and as he reachs for the handle, it unlocks, a bright light moves across the glass. As the heavy, iron-studded oak door opens towards him, a nameless dread flows through his veins...

Jacob awakens, drenched in sweat, the car still parked the engine purring.
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"What?! What?!"
He wakes in panic, looking around him dreadfully, trying to regain his heart beat to normal.

"Shma is'rael, Adonai ishmor" He mumbles in Hebrew ('Hear O' Israel, God is my guardian').
He looks at his watch, realizing he fell a sleep or fainted, wanted to see for how much time.
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Jacob realises he's been asleep for ten minutes or so.
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Jacob grunts angrily to himself for falling asleep, he drank coffee for god's sake.
He opens up the window, takes a deep breath and begins to drive
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Jacob returns home without any further incident.
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Jacob opens the front door and drops his stuff on the kitchen table, takes a glass of water and sighs. He sips quietly and rethinks of what happened at the airport, it was but some hours ago that everything was going smoothly, well not that smoothly, with the long lines of security.
He goes to his bedroom, undress and takes a shower. The calls can wait half an hour. Now he needs to clear his mind, to his parents he will call o the evening, the last thing he need is lectures of panic from his mother.
Half an hour later, wearing nothing more then a boxer, he takes a sit by his desk. He opens his laptop and skype account and calls his hosts in Israel, notifying them about the cancelation of his coming.
Once he is done, he begin to browse the internet for news of what happened, if none exist he logs to the online court records and begin a search of cases similar to what he encountered.
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OOC:,Hi Roya see my comments about Library use in the OOC thread. Unless you can be more specific about what information you are searching for it will take a long time before you get any useful results.
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Jacob will search for the following key words - terrorist children + suspects report memory loss.

The girl is Albanian, so she came to the U.K form somewhere, she wanted to return to Athens. SO it could be that what she failed here at the airport she managed to do there. He will try to find similar news about terrorist suspect in Athens airport or Tirana, news about mass memory loss in the airport of Athens or any other airport around Europe.
Major newspapers tend to write about wars and other crimes, yellow press tend to write about things like this he guess.

Hmm.. Jacob thinks about the following. When he was in the lounge, not far from the girl, time seemed to past more quickly - the cigarette and the dehydration symptom of the people. He tries to see if the watch he wore when he met her is synchronized with the clocks at home.
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later in the evening Jacob recieves an e-mail from Liz which basically describes a similar dream to the one Jacob had when he fell asleep in his car.
OOC:,Working late into the evening Jacob finds no similar news stories relating to terrorist suspects in either Athens airport or Tirana, certainly nothing pointng to mass memory loss or indeed any other airport. Jacobs watch is fine. Appart from responding to Liz's mail can I suggest moving onto meeting the others [url=http://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=192&t=2721]at speakers corner[/url] as Jacob arranged.
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Rather than bother with making a meal for himself Jacob grabs a sandwich from the delicatessen and collapses into the chair at his kitchen table.

Having enjoyed a reasonable meal in the local resteraunt recomended by tge concierge Greg returns to his room kicks off his shoes and flops down onto his bed flicking through the channels on the TV he settles for a show on the comedy chanel.

...Jacob wakes in a girl's bedroom, full of stuffed animals and toys, the light is off, it's nightime, but light streams in from outside. Pulling the window curtain aside, just a little bit, Jacob sees an old man standing underneath a street lamp. He wears a long dark coat with a thick fur collar turned up, his hair is long and unkempt. Even from this distance Jacob can tell he is looking up at him and the mans eyes are full of fire. He kneels and touches the ground, a bale fire burns on the street in front of the man, rushing forward it splits apart, coming back together to form a sigil, a living, burning brand on the tarmac. The flickering light illuminates Jacob's arm, the same one he pushed the curtain open with, the same sigil has been cut into his forearm.

Jacob awakens in his chair to find the same symbol on her arm, it feels like sunburn but is quickly fading.
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Jacob quickly rushes to the bathroom to wash his arm with a stream of cold water.

I'm hallucinating … what is happening to me?!

He speaks to the mirror as he dry his face and arm with a towel. He goes to the kitchen and takes a glass of water and takes a sit at his desk. He grabs A4 paper from the printer and scribes the sigil he saw. Once finished he goes to the shelf and grabs his Psalms book and begins to read.

Half an hour later…

Jacob puts the book away, grabs his phone to call Greg. In the meantime he opens his laptop, logging into his outlook account and to think how he can find what he saw on the internet.
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OOC:,[b]Art[/b] roll please to reproduce the sigil in any useful form before it fades from view.
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Jacob scribes something as he can't recall the sigil.
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Perhaps he delayed overly long in the bathroom, but Jacob has to work largely from memory, when he's finished he's left wondering if what he drew was anything like what he saw.

while he sits there his laptop pings with an email from Liz: "I had the same exact dream Greg did and woke up with this symbol on my arm. It started to fade quickly, but I was able to snap this piccy. It's a bit rubbish, but there wasn't enough time to get a proper shot." a photo is attached to the mail it shows a familiar sigil
OOC: SAN loss,SAN loss 0/D3 - as Jacob realises he Greg and Liz have all had the same dream.
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Instead of being shocked, mystery shrouds Jacob's mind and he ponders for himself sometime as he watch at the photo Liz shot, trying to compare the photo with what he drew.

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Jacob is at the dinner party held by the practices senior partner Mr Cox; there are people around laughing at some joke. Jacob starts to feel hot, sweat breaks out all over his body. The woman in front of her steps back looking surprised, heat starts to pour from Jacob's body, and as he collapses to the floor, his body is illuminated from within, his chest and stomach begin to swell, veins and organs become visible as though illuminated by some intense light from within. his stomach swells as if pregnant, and he can see something, alight and inhuman silhouetted against the stretched skin of his abdomen.

Jacob awakens to the incessant chatter of his clock radion. Jacob vaguely remebers coming home after seeing the Rabbi and looking through his own limited collection of books in search of a connection any connection to the image as he sits up he becomes aware of the story on the clock radio.

"A house fire claimed the lives of two Albanian Immigrants in a North London suburb today, the fire service responded to a midnight emergency call but arrived too late to save Edward and Rose Tolka, second generation Albanian Immigrants. Police are currently investigating the whereabouts of the young girl who was only recently placed in their care by social services as a result of events at Heathrow earlier this week"
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Jackpot!

Jacob exclaims just before he recalls the dream and throws up his last dinner on the floor.

God save me, what a horrible dream.

He was feeling like Kane, on board the Nostromo in the first alien movie. All that was left is to wait for the creature to burst open Jacob's ribs.
After washing his face in the bathroom and cleaning the floor Jacob haste to his laptop and write down the names of the Albanian parents. He then sends a SMS to the others.

***Tolka … her last name is Tolka. Her parents died in the fire in North London today.***

He tries to call his office, hopefully someone decided to work lately. He asks someone to find him some urgent information (Address and history) of these immigrants.
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As Jacob hangs up the phone from a fruitless effort to see if anyone was in yet, his mobile phone pings from both Clay and Liz

both describing the news and essentially the same vivid dream, although this time with some different details in both cases.
OOC:,check the news thread for additional details. Its the early hours of the morning by the way rather than late at night, my bad for not making it clearer.
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Jacob calls everybody, hoping they will be awake now that he suspects that they had the same dream again.
If so, he will take his car and will pick them up one by one before heading to burned house of the Tolka family
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