Starting the Slowpocalypse (Books 1-3 Omnibus) by James Litherland

Author:James Litherland [Litherland, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Outpost Stories
Published: 2015-07-20T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Eye of the Storm

6:15 a.m. Monday, March 3rd

ANTHONY leaned back in a chair in Ken’s office, listening to David stand there and tell his story for the third time. It was detailed, thorough, and well-organized—exactly the same as the first two times. For all his faults, the young man excelled at observing and reporting the facts—but he’d come to Security with those skills already. Hopefully once he was back as Lisa’s partner, she could finish turning him into a good officer.

When Tony and Susan had arrived at the Guard HQ shortly after midnight, they’d had to hear Sgt. Carruthers’ story first. With a more intimate understanding of what was going on, David’s report had been more helpful—and included a lot of details he couldn’t share with his nominal superior.

Susan had been in Anthony’s office, giving him her report on the progress she had made that evening, when the call had come. Although she had been scheduled to go off duty already, he had brought her along to the crime scene and made her stick around long enough to pick up the basic details of the case. Then he’d sent her home to rest so she could switch over to the day shift.

He’d left Salazar and Gabe on patrol, trusting in their ability to handle anything else that popped up, and summoned Paul and Sara to the crime scene to help him keep it under control. It would be a good learning experience for them. And he’d sent Kirkland and Michelle a message that they should come start their shift at the scene. Because they were the ones he really wanted conducting the initial investigation.

Kirkland was an old hand at handling scenes of crime. And while Michelle Mori was still a relative rookie, she’d earned degrees in biology and chemistry—and was working on a graduate degree in medical research. When she’d applied to work in Security, Anthony had seen that she got some basic training in criminalistics. Now she’d become his de facto crime scene technician. Though until now he hadn’t actually needed one.

After making sure those two had the investigation at the scene going smoothly, he’d sent Paul and Sara out to the buffer zone to interview the guards who’d been posted there overnight. He himself had gone back over everything with the four guards who had been in the building. They were the only people except for the victim known to be in the building.

Anthony hadn’t been too tired to remember to call Ben back at the Resource Room to have him begin going over the digital logs for every locking and unlocking of every door in the Guard HQ.

Finally, as dawn was approaching, he had taken David to Chief Cameron’s office to give Ken the full picture and let him hear David’s report for himself. Then Anthony explained what he wanted from both men.

“David, I want you to continue acting as a night-shift guard. And keep your eyes open—whatever is going on, it’s definitely centered on this building.

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