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Two and half thousand words later ... is this showing or telling?

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The sun was rising from the east, when Gordon sat back in his chair, comparing sketch artist drawing to the photo that he had taken out from his pocket. The homeless man had spilled out his story in late hours. For a long time he had hold back on Gordon techniques, but at the end, he was too tired to hold back his story for nothing. The man in the photo was “a relic hunter.” The homeless man also revealed that, “the hunter had bit of dust off with one local gangs in the bar, and when the play turned a notch harder. He dusted one of the punks, with the thing the hunter had brought from the wasteland. In the chaos that followed, the hunter lurked out with his tail between his legs to meet up with a mercenary.” At the outside, he had “mugged” the homeless man and when he had complained, the dusting man “reached in his pockets and threw me few coins from his trip to wasteland.”

‘His story is as truthful as it can get’ Gordon thought. He guessed that the homeless man story was most probably a collection of the stories, that he had heard from the other people. It was enough for Gordon to start a search in the Royal Scotland Yard database, narrowing down on all the relic-hunter licenses that they had approved in the last ten years, 'If I can find one the correlates with the photo, then that will eat Jones revelation. If not, then that will prove Jones is right about the nature of the man, and then I really have focus my search on the Don Cy Harmonic and their relationship to the dusting man...'

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