Chapter One - Part 17

"As soon as we can we need to send a new memo, Shifter. It needs to say that whoever raided the archives has, also, been linked to the abduction of the lab crew.”

The Chairman continued speaking out his mental inventory as Shifter called it, “Magera has his orders. He knows what to do, and what to plant on the bodies to implicate these runners - and what to look for when he's made sure they are not talking." Chairman Roberts had forgotten the time.

"We need to power down sir," Shifter said as he walked to the main power cut off for the office complex. He pulled the stop lever, and then listened for the brakes on the wind generator.

"Wha... oh yeah." The councilman replied.

"Yes, sir. He is ready to take out his whole crew and make it look like a fire fight." The generator powered down and he heard the familiar screech then clack of the brakes locking. "He will retrieve the samples and the support equipment."

Slowly fading off in the distance, the sound of wind locks being set throughout the settlement echoed back to the Chairman's office. Shifter counted them.