Tomislav Takač--Girl From Neum

When they called him Adam Ibrahimović the best criminal pathologist in not just Sarajevo but in Bosnia and Hercegovina he was expecting just a regular job. ’Body of the young female found in Neum’s harbo this morning ’’ Everything changed when he saw the actual body. He tough that her skin turned dark blue because ‘’Livor Mortis’’ but close inspection proved otherwise...it was just a start....So, what do you think?Sir? Asked the local police officer Stevo Hadžić. Adam-Well, she does look strange, if you can’t stand autopsies I wont judge you. Stevo/No way I must be here like it or not....even if I vomit. Well she does not smell rotten, so she was not dead for long? Adam/Yeah, that what its look like...hm her head is tilted slightly to the left, hm ,she broke her neck, there is something else on her neck. No one reported missing person in the last 24 hours?Nobody? ID? or any papers? Stefan/Exactly, no one in the entire Adriatic sea! We only find some sort a net with seashells and fish. Adam opened pulls out a scalpel and started to cut open her chest but scalpel fails to cut her smooth cold skin. Adam/ This is a brand new scalpel, and it just dents her skin like its butter knife....He poked and opened the strange four lines on her neck,realising they are gills similar to ones sharks have. He started writing down everything what he can observe before finds a scalpel or something other to cut her open.Age;18-25 year old sex;female. Dark black hair reaching her shoulders.Skin was light ocean blue but her back dark blue the only clothing was a some sort of tiny skirt made of fabric resembling seaweed. On her left arms and feet he notices there webbing membrane. Teeth are triangular shape like piranha’s and white as pearl. The inside of her mouth was slightly blue as well. Only diamond scalpel managed to slightly cut her skin but it broke. Adam realized that the body is not quite human...or alien?He picked up a small battery lamp and opens her eyelids, just to be surprised when he see they are completely black... Stefan/Jesus! First she was swimming almost completely naked...whatever was she doing in the sea, then her she has teeth like barracudas, and now eyes like little gray aliens? Adam/We know more after blood and DNA test. This mutations....they look more like adaptation's to life in sea if I am truly honest.He decided to use a diamond bone cutter and it managed to cut her skin but just barely....she had lungs, but her heart was two times bigger that the normal human one and she has two livers! Sudenly a young police officer apears out of nowhere pale as a snow, and yelles. /Sir! The relatives of the girl....are here! He than show them the photo of them on his phone standing on wooden platform in the harbor, they were all blue-skinned just like the girl and jet black eyes,but all men armed with spears and rifles that looked like they were made from seashells ad lobsters. One of them had some sort of crown on his head, the leader of the group, possibly their king. Adam close her chest and nods to the police officers to put her body in a coffin. Stefan/Why Doc? We just goanna give it to them? Adam/Yes, first off all its a right thing to do, second if it takes a Bonecutter to cut her skin do you think that you two stand a chance with them? After putting her body in the coffin they take to the police car and drive straight to the harbor. They waited patiently seemingly not moving like statues with no emotion. When they pulled out the coffin and gently put on the ground the leader walked forward to them with of two biggest guards and one of them opened the coffin, while the rest was watching the three Bosnians sweating like crazy not knowing what they fate will be.The leader took a look at the dead girl than give a sing to close to coffin and to take it wih them. Then he looked Adam in the eyes and words echoed in pathologist mind/My daughter! We take her home....to rest forever....go home surfacedwellers! We not angry...but don’t fight or follow us....or you die! There was sorrow in the voice Adam heard in his mind even if his face wasn’t shoving any of it. They turn back with the coffin and just walked in to the sea, like they are walking in the park.The three man waited couple of seconds and then they relaxed. Stefan/What the hell wee gonna say to our superiors?! Adam/The whole true, what else wee goanna do? Lie?

Tomislav Takač was born in 1988 in the city of Subotica, Serbia. Since early childhood, he has been fascinated with everything strange and he eventually became something of a walking encyclopedia. He started writing novels and short stories five years ago and hasn’t stopped since. He currently works in a women’s sock factory.

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