The Larhusburg Incident: Dyfed Synnove - The Early Years

“I am standing in the quiet college town of Larhusburg, in front of Larhusburg University, where just 6 hours ago, a gunman walked through the school gates and fired at the students and faculty. Of them, 4 students, 1 teacher, the headteacher and the school gatesman were killed, and 12 others were injured. After 10 minutes of chaos, police arrived at the scene, and attempted to apprehend the gunman, who was identified as Godfrey Salman, an Anglo-Turkic Cieleardan with a history of mental health issues. Of them, 3 officers died and the 4th was severely injured. Eventually, a tactical unit was deployed and Salman was shot on sight. Questions are being asked about whether the officers involved received sufficient training for the situation. Now, Nancy Feldman is an exchange student who witnessed the whole thing. Ms Feldman, wha-”BEEP

P.C Synnove switches off the television and gets up. He puts on his white shirt, black shoes and navy blue stab vest, utility belt, trousers and custodian helmet. He walks out of his apartment, picking up his badge and keys along the way. He crosses the street towards the Cynesetle S.E Police Station and heads to the lockers. On the way, he sees a guided school tour, and a teacher, telling interesting information to the students behind him. Synnove opens his locker and takes out his gun. He hesitates for a moment, then looks over at the teacher. He shuts the locker and heads up the stairs. Once he gets to the second floor, he barges into the Chief Inspector’s office, forcing him to apologise to the woman on the other end of the phone line and hang up.

“We talked about this, P.C Synnove. No barging into the offi-” He is interrupted by a gun and a badge landing on his desk.

“I quit. I’ll fax through my notice later.”

“Why are you quitting? What’s brought this on? Oh, are we to slow for you here, Mr Synnove. Are we too-”

“There’s an off-med schizophrenic with an AK-47 right behind me. What do I do?”

“I... I don’t kno-”

“That’s the problem. None of us do.” He walks out of the office, down the stairs and out onto the street. He takes a neatly folded C.V from his pocket and heads for Cynesetle S.E High School.