resolution
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Okay. I'm right in front of the Chancellor's House now. The same day July 26th, but then I'm thinking Thursday and so I believe my last note was talking about how to resolve the final conflict of Christian discovering a mean as body, you know, or perhaps, you know, trying to decide how to deal with her death that may or may not have been at his hands. Most likely accidental. It's got to be confusing. And he decides to hide the body, you know, after perhaps it could have been a rock climbing accident or a spulunking accident, you know, in one of the caves or rock walls around Barton Springs. And so, you know, his military instincts, you know, coming from Iraq made him feel like no one's going to care about the body of an Arab woman. So in some way he has to protect her. And at the same time, he's aware of the controversy surrounding the toxic waste site and the aquifer. And this somewhat at a loss as to what to do about it. So he decides to hide her body. And wait until he can figure out what to do. He feels like if the police come, they'll think that, you know, they'll investigate him, they'll think he has something to do with it. Or maybe they won't think anything and maybe they'll just, you know, ship her off back to Egypt or whatever. And everyone will forget about her. He didn't want anyone to forget about him, you know. So, keeping that was kind of moving there. Yeah. He wants her or death to mean something. And so, he comes up with a plan to basically let the media build up a story on the missing Egyptian girl. And well at the same time, you know, expose her father's death because he will have died. Perhaps, you know, a few days earlier, getting hit by a van that was coming out of the US Embassy tearing through the streets of downtown Cairo. And he was one of many bystanders, but perhaps he was struck dead center while the others were seem to have been in more or less collateral damage. The van did not intend to hit them by the pit. But anyway, you know, he, he discovers his mother's letters when he goes home one day and finds his father crying. And it's not clear whether or not his father is crying. Well, his father is crying over the discovery that his mother pretty much always loved Sharif. And so, that will just miss tears him apart. He thought that maybe she had somehow told him that she was just going on a trip, you know, and that she would come back. She had to see the world maybe and then would come back and marry him. And that's what he thought. But he discovers that she had a penpal, well, that she had actually gone to see that penpal and married and had a kid with him. And what's interesting is that she sent letters using the letter heads and documents, the backs of documents and the high planes underground water district. And the backs of those, some of those documents were survey documents. One in particular was a letter, the letter that, the letter that were in which she stated she was coming to Egypt and they would get married, was the same letter that, on the other side, gave the exact, maybe these were, you know, top of, not top of logical maps, but maps of the underground. And they gave the exact boundaries of the aquifer in, you know, whatever year that was, maybe we'll say the 70s. And on the, and so the letter was more significant to Christian in the present because it exposed the truth about the toxic waste facility and that it was situated right on top of the aquifer. However, the, you know, his father is crying over the fact that he discovered his wife never really, he was not his wife's true love. And so, it occurs to the Christian that he, he, he now knows what he can do, what he should do to not let Amina's death or her father's death go in vain or go on forgotten. And so, he, you know, as a veteran, he's clearly still somewhat traumatized, possibly we could even say a bit suicidal. And he decides to hide her body and claim that he was the one who, that she guided his hands, whether it was through murder or involuntary manslaughter that has yet to, we've got to talk about that some more, but murder is obviously more sexy. And to decide basically that Christian, Christian decides to take the blame. So after, perhaps we could say a week's long search, he confesses as to the location of the body and to what happens. But he lies. He, he claims, you know, that he just came back from Andrews, Texas. And he was wanting to show her a toxic waste dump. And she slipped and hit her head on her rock and died. He didn't know what to do. They were out there in the middle of the night. They were camping. And so, he buried her body. Now, about, he buried her body in a location where he believes the, you know, the aquifer still lies. So the intention is that they, this is all his fabricated story. So he's going to say he buried her body in a special place. And they have to decide if you want to end it there or if you want the authorities to discover something in that place instead and not her body. And because her, you know, her body has yet to be found, he will not be charged yet because they need the body to charge him. But what they will find instead is something related to the crime of covering up the fact that this toxic waste site was approved and approved without due process. And a permitted to dump toxic materials onto the underground waters of the aquifer. And so maybe it's an old property marker that was, that was maybe something, you know, we'll have to figure out there's got to be some kind of tangible object that can be discovered because there's no way they're going to be able to dig for. You know, because they're going to, they're going to see that he really didn't dig up anything. But they're going to, I mean, there's no, there's no sign of a burial. But the authorities will need to go out there and see something. So we'll have to figure that out. But I think that's a good place to stop for now. All right. Oh, and well, no, not yet. I got one more thing. I think it's a change his name to Christopher Fletcher. That way his discussion with his English TA can ask him, you know, she can fumble on his name constantly calling him Christian instead of Christopher. And, you know, then you can have the conversation about how he doesn't know who the literary Christian Fletcher is or Fletcher Christian for that matter who, you know, who disobeyed the orders of his commanding officer, his captain, and decided to remain on the island on Nightingh Cook Island. I can't remember. With the girl that he was in love with and forced the captain to leave his men and crew and go back to England and he had charged, you know, the story of Mutiny on the bounty, basically. And then Christopher Fletcher will be a veteran who does not believe in disobeying orders, which will create, or kind of a foreshadowing, and, you know, kind of a negative character, not a negative, but like an inverse characterization of him. Because he will disobey orders later in the novel. And this will cause him to perhaps be abandoned on the island. We'll see. So anyway, that will be part of the conversation that he has with his TA about his paper over the supposed controversial topic. The TA was just writing anything an easy controversial topic. She didn't buy it. She didn't want it. She was not going to give him a passing grade if he turned it in. The play on the word tailwater. So she, you know, that's when she proposes to him that, you know, if he takes another course, that she'll give him an opportunity to make up his grade and turn his paper in later, a new paper. Okay. That's it.