179 [AT] Moonlight Sonata...  

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Life is as great as it can be right now considering the fact that I'm currently one of Batman's sidekicks which I have to reluctantly admit I am since I have been following him out every night since the night that has henceforth been dubbed 'Two-Crow Scare-Face' since on that night I battled both Two-Face and Scarecrow and came out victorious which turns out to be quite the eventful night compared to what the others debuts were like since batman started just fighting thugs on the street and the mob with Robin following in his footsteps and going after a member of the mob on his first crusade but that one was personal since apparently that mobster was responsible for his parents death and that crusade led him to become Robin and Batgirls first adventure was literally putting on some purple tight fitting spandex with a tracksuit on top along with one of those toy batman masks you'd get from a shop along with a taser her dad gave her and she went out and took on someone called the Mothman who I can't remember for the life of me so he must be pretty insignificant and so in comparison to the others my debut was a lot more eventful and dangerous, since my first night out on the town that is the steaming shit pile called Gotham I've been tagging along with batman who's been looking out for me and teaching me quite a lot on the job and letting me take the lead on investigations which I was quite bad at admittedly but thanks to Batman's guidance I've gotten a whole lot better but it still doesn't compare to Batman's skills which is why he has been sending me to crime scenes and investigations to start working on cases myself to improve and has further 'helped' me by giving me two weeks leave from my job as an assistant to Lucius Fox which I had been really enjoying and so now I've had all day to just investigate crime scenes and I've solved quite a few and right now I'm on my way to a brand new crime scene to solve a mysterious case.  

A few days ago, there was an ad in the newspaper that was directed directly at Batman and it stated "During the next full moon, once again on Moonshade Island the shadows will begin to vanish. Please investigate Batman. - Aaron Kane" and while some people did notice this add in the newspaper they inevitably thought it was just a prank or something which is why they just ended up ignoring it and while Alfred did bring it to Batman's attention it was ultimately ignored by everyone at the Wayne Manor and yet a few days later Batman approached me and gave me a ticket to a ferry and told me to go investigate the case on Moonshade Island which was one of the multiple islands that was off the coast of Gotham City and while I did ask for more information on the case and why Batman thought it was relevant to investigate even going as far as to ask to use the Bat-computer to do some research but Batman did not tell me anything or allow me to do any research, he in fact banned me from any such research before I got to Moonshade Island and when I questioned his reasoning he stated that he has decided that it was time to test my detective skills and so he was sending me to take on this challenge while he remained here and looked after Gotham as Gotham would be defenceless without Batman and so he relegated this task to me and yet he was so sure that there was a detective needed just from that little add in the newspaper and so he must know something about this situation and identified that it was the perfect opportunity for me as well as the danger level being low since he did not allow me to take my Orphan suit with me and he didn't allow me to take any gadgets either so I can surmise from that that I wouldn't need them as Batman would not let me go into danger without being prepared and so this must truly only be a test of my detective skills and not any other type of test.  

Which is why i was given two weeks off of work and given a ticket for a ferry which would take me to Moonshade island where I had already been booked into a fancy hotel with my excuse being that I was taking a holiday for my two-week break when in actual fact I had come to the island to start investigating something and the only clues I had was the brief letter which merely stated "During the next full moon, once again on moonshade island the shadows will begin to vanish. Please investigate Batman. - Aaron Kane'' Which means my only clue right now is someone presumably on the island called Aaron Kane which is why as soon as the ferry arrived at Moonshade island I got in the luxury car Bruce lent me (the car I was renting was returned by Barbara to the place I rented it from after she thought I died in the factory collapse and since I had already paid a full fee for the next couple of months they were happy to take it back and there's nothing I could do about it either) which was subtle enough that I wouldn't draw any attention and I immediately drove off the ferry and onto Moonshade island in search of answers with my main goal being to find someone called Aaron Kane, I know that I have a phone right next to me and I could probably search this dudes name and find out every single thing about him but that would defeat the purpose of batman sending me here and I don't want to cheat either plus batman would know if i cheated and that would ruin all I've worked for so I've got to do this investigation properly with no cheating which is why I was immediately off to the Moonshade Island Village Office since this island has a tight knit community and everyone knows everyone and so I would head to the Village Office which would have information on everyone on the island and id ask the people who work there since they are the most likely to help and so I drove to the Village Office already knowing the way since I had procured a map of the island from someone selling them on the ferry.  

"I'm sorry but there isn't anyone with that name on this island, I've searched through all of our records thoroughly but there isn't anyone alive on this island with that name. I'm sorry that I couldn't help you find the man you're looking for since he is not on the island's residents list, you could try asking the mayor since apparently he knows every single person on the island and probably has more information than we have in our records." When I got to the Village Office I parked up outside and then went inside and asked the guy at the front desk where Aaron Kane lives but after he searched through the system using the computer in front of him he tells me that there is no one living on this island called Aaron Kane which frankly baffles me since I got a message from the guy to come here and he is my only lead right and if I can't find him then I've hit a dead end, the best I could do after this is to just travel around the island sightseeing and hoping I spot something or talk to some people for information or eavesdrop on people but those things don't seem likely to help me but I can do them since I've got two weeks off but I think I will eventually have to resort to using my phone and cheating but first I will exhaust all my other options. "Hey, what's going on here? Aren't you helping this man? What seems to be the problem?" Out of nowhere this receptionist's boss/supervisor comes out of nowhere and starts to ask if everything's okay presumably because he picked up on my body language that I didn't receive what I wanted from the receptionist and so he came to check up on the situation, it seems the receptionist wanted to answer his boss but I don't want to waste any time and the supervisor probably knows more than the receptionist so I redirect my query towards him instead before the receptionist can say anything. "I'm looking for a resident that lives on this island but your receptionist searched the system and there seems to be no record of this man living here, I'm looking for someone called Aaron Kane who-"  

"A-AARON KANE! Did you say Aaron Kane!?" the supervisor/boss yells when I mention the name of the man who sent the mysterious letter to Batman and out his outburst the entire room dissolves into gasps before having a heavy period of silence as they all stare towards us in shock and I just stare back bewildered by their reaction to the name along with the receptionist who seems to be just as clueless about the situation as me, just what could Aaron Kane have done to elicit such a mass reaction from the mere utter of his name and why do I feel like nothing is going to be as simple as I thought it would be when I first walked through those doors. "No wonder you didn't find him on the system, after all that man has been dead for more than ten years. It happened twelve years ago on the night of a full moon. Aaron Kane was a famous pianist that originated from this island and he was the pride of the whole village. Twelve years ago, after performing a concert at the village's community centre he suddenly locked himself and his family inside his own home, and set the house on fire. according to the rescuers who arrived at the scene after brutally murdering his wife and daughter with a knife, he played the same piece over and over amidst the flames like a man possessed." With a heavy gulp I imagined the scene in my head of the wife and daughter's dead bodies next to the piano Aaron Kane was playing while the fire consumed and the house whole, what kind of psychopath must he have been to carry on playing the piano even whilst he was being burned alive, I want to know and I also want to know what song he was playing on the piano since it must have been good to persevere and play it while being consumed by a blaze of fire. "And what was it? What was the song he played that night?"  

"What he played that night, the same night that he killed his entire family including himself and burnt himself and his house to ashes, what he played still haunts me today. He played Beethoven, Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata'..."

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