Tzarina

Intro Walking back to your hotel, it's the morning after the night before. You, and your lifelong friends, are holidaying in the south of France ... because somebody said it was a Nice place. You'd all been socialising together with some other tourists, and jumped at a chance to go out on some eastern European guy's amazing party boat. The night was great ... until somebody was found dead. A German woman had called the police, and everyone was taken for questioning. It wasn't long before you sobered up enough, and a frustrated french policeman got your statement. Aside from your 4 friends, and a few people you met, you hadn't known anyone ... certainly not the victim. Your interview had been quite brief. But you'd heard enough to know there had been some arguments and a fight. An hour ago, you'd been released and asked to go back to your accommodation. The police have your passport, and will visit you later today. You haven't seen your friends, so you only presume they'll be told the same thing. Now , you're walking along a quiet beach as the sun rises on the new day ... and you're exhausted and dealing with a buzzing headache ... when you see a vision ahead of you. Your immediate response is to wonder if you're actually somehow moving from a nightmare back to dreaming ...