I go to look through the blinds, seeing everyone standing and moving toward the monitors.

She downloads the files, and within a matter of moments, we hear the commotion outside. The computer dings like it has a new message, and Hadley pulls up the message box.Īll you have to do is download it.

I also see tons of files to be downloaded, a complete gathering of evidence. She opens it, and my stomach churns when I see a video download there.

Hadley flips screens on her laptop immediately, and I see an email to her from a weird address. Lana isn’t the sweet girl right now.Ĭheck your email, and I’ll give you a front row seat to the show when you’re finished. My heartbeat drums in my throat, and another message box comes through. But I can’t see her face from this angle. The monitors flip to a whirl of dark hair from the back, guns loading her down as she carries a backpack through town. Hadley’s eyes meet mine, a question in their depths. Hadley sucks in a breath, staring at the message box.īecause I sent them there. You ready for this? Or do you want to look away? It’s going to get messy. “These here are probably some officers who were sent to the edge of the town border for some reason,” Hadley goes on, gesturing to the three dots off to the side.Ī message box pops up before I can ask any more questions. My stomach clenches as my eyes train on the moving ones. “That’s probably Jake or Lana, just like this one,” Hadley says, motioning to one that is moving through the streets like it’s walking. “What are these?” I ask, pointing to the few near the side of the town, and the one right on the border but still inside the town. “They cleared out the entire town with the exception of the deputies.” “Town hall,” Hadley says to herself, echoing my own thoughts. It has the entire town on the screen, but the only heat signatures are all coming from one building. “Why isn’t anything happening?” I ask Hadley, watching the monitors that have been flipping at random for the past hour on the completely evacuated town.Ī screen pops up the heat signature screen from earlier that Jake shut down. The attempt to combine wisdom and power has rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.

Paint it all red st abby