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In a distant year post 2029…
"This globe that was used to bludgeon our victim doesn't belong to her," Morgan tells Detective Karadec.
"What do you mean?" Karadec questions. The blonde had only just arrived at the public middle school that featured their latest murder of the week.
"Look, it has the Gulf of America on it.” She crouches down and points with a blue gloved hand to a part of the globe that lies beside the victim’s head.
“Does that seem like a globe this teacher would have?” she asks as she stands back up. “A teacher that has the Nineteenth Amendment hanging up on their wall,” she gestures to the wall opposite the door, “and has her students read A.S.King, a known feminist and LGBTQ+ activist?" She nods at the bookcase behind the teacher’s desk that has Attack of the Black Rectangles and I Crawl Through It by A.S. King situated nicely beside The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas.
"You're right,” the seasoned detective agrees. “That does seem odd.”
"This globe most likely belongs to a different teacher,” Morgan says, already moving out of the room and into the hallway.
“Okay,” Karadec says, following her out. “Which one? There are over twenty teachers at this school. How do we narrow it down? Ask them about their political associations?”
“No,” Morgan dismisses, ducking her head in and out of classrooms as she makes steady progress down the hall. “We just need to find which teachers have globes in their classrooms, either for aesthetics or practical purposes.”
“Okay.” He nods along, starting to sense where this might be going.
They come to the end of the hall, and when his partner steps into its last room, the firm planting of her feet in the doorway tells him all he needs to know even before her head starts nodding.
“This is it,” she says. “This is our killer’s room.”
Karadec steps up behind her to look into the classroom over her shoulder, spotting the globe on the desk and the curious wall hanging of a giant, laminated version of the Second Amendment that has him whistling.
“You think this teacher and our victim had beef?”
“Oh yeah,” Morgan says without hesitation as she strides over to the desk.
The detective follows behind and arrives beside her just as she turns the globe to feature the North American continent.
She stops and points. “See, ‘Gulf of Mexico,’ right here.”
"They switched them?"
"Yup."
"And how do we know our victim didn't just buy her ‘Gulf of America’ globe during the second Trump administration, and this teacher just kept an older globe?"
"Because only Trump supporters would shell out money for a ‘Gulf of America’ globe. They don't pay teachers enough to buy new globes for every presidential administration. That means the teacher really had to want it or else they would have bought second hand, and our victim wouldn’t have bought a ‘Gulf of America’ globe, even if it was thrifted."
"And the school wouldn't buy globes for the teachers because-?"
"They don't help teachers nearly enough with classroom supplies as it is. They barely have enough money to keep the lights on, especially so during the second Trump administration."
"So, Second Amendment teacher?"
"Second Amendment teacher."
“Alright,” Karadec says, “let’s go bring them in for questioning then.”