Shadow Unit 6 by Emma Bull & Elizabeth Bear

Author:Emma Bull & Elizabeth Bear [Bull, Emma & Bear, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fbi, bau, behavioral analysis unit
Publisher: Emma Bull
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Twilight sloped down the streets of the Federal District. Quitting time for the U.S. Government. Pedestrians bustled like ants for the nearest Metro stop. Cars queued like cattle in a loading chute, leaving parking garages. Limos double-parked or waited at red curbs or intimidated lesser vehicles to press into traffic bound for the on-ramps. Commercial trucks and vans brought work to the night shift, or slipped a delivery into a mail room just under the next-day wire.

No one would notice another white van.

The woman had to stretch her spine to look into the viewscreen of the camera braced on the steering wheel. Its long lens watched the entrance of a parking garage reserved for federal employees. The woman and the camera were equally, inhumanly patient.

In the passenger seat lay a new spiral notebook, “198” printed thick and precise on the clean cover.

At the sight of a black 2007 Cadillac CTS-V passing the rising gate, the woman stiffened and drew a quick breath through her teeth. The car paused for foot traffic on the sidewalk, and she focused and clicked. She kept clicking as the car turned right toward the van, passed it, turned left at the end of the block.

Her focused stillness was gone. She pushed the camera into the passenger’s seat and snatched up the notebook, flipped three pages in to the first blank sheet. She wrote; like automatic writing, the gel pen travelled hastily, ceaselessly, across the page, two lines of writing for each ruled space. It was as if a library of information was stored in the woman’s brain, moved into ink on paper at a desperate speed. As if outrunning fire or flood or some other menace that ate knowledge.

She hummed some fast, unrecognizable song. There was no emphasis to mark the beginnings or ends of measures.

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