Deja-vu?

Now this is odd...

You’re absolutely sure that’s the same man again. Two days before, he was the waiter in that small restaurant (a real dick, he nearly poured coffee over your jacket), and yesterday he was the kiosk owner who called you a [censored] when you didn’t have the correct pocket change. And today he was the bus driver who yelled at you to shut up when you made small talk with the other passengers. Is this guy following you?

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Possibilities

1 Nothing odd, just an overworked fellow, who has three jobs to pay support to his ex-wife and children. Unfortunately he thinks now, his ex-wife sent you to watch him...

2 It’s an impostor – a being, which sucks out a person’s life, than takes on the appearance of his victim and lives his life for a few years, before it gets hungry again. Coincidentally, the investigator is one of those rare persons that can look through the impostor's disguise and, since the impostor has no visible true form, always see him in the appearance of his first victim a few decades ago.

The impostor has already sensed the investigator's disturbance and therefore tried to hide in a new body. Since this didn’t work, he’s decided to make the investigator his next victim...

3 It’s a ghost, an ancestor or a close friend to the investigator's family. While alive, he was always known for his grumpy behaviour and mysteriously disappeared a few years before the investigator was born. He was actually murdered by members of a secret cult, who are still continuing their dark rituals – and the investigator shall be their next victim...

The bus driver, the waiter and the kiosk owner – who all look different - swear, that they’ve never seen or spoke with the investigator before, and that they weren’t ill or absent the whole week.

© Philipp Mählmann