Repose

[Some computers across Repose flicker on Friday afternoon. Only some, not all, and on some of those flickering screens, a message appears.

Black screen.

Green text.]

Are you there?

[The cursor blinks as though waiting for a response.]

[After the mist, there is an incident at the High School. Details are exceptionally vague, but it appears as though one of the special education kids had a fit. During the lunch hour, the special ed teacher and his assistant are carted out on stretchers and taken to the Capital due to the possible severity of internal bleeding and extended obstruction of oxygen to their brains.

The oldest of the students kept the others in line while their teachers were indisposed, but she refuses to say anything about what happened or who did it. Well, she refuses to say anything at all.]

[As things get worse, as Wren H.]

Stay inside. Stay inside. Stay inside. Stay inside.

[Later, the same woman is spotted near the lake, where a number of lakeside mansions are broken into. The thief isn't caught, and the things missing aren't plentiful. No, each home visited has their most valuable portable item removed: The family pearls from an uncrackable safe, a Picasso from a wall, a Fabergé egg from a curio, those canary diamond cufflinks, that Qing Dynasty vase, etc. And, of course, no one sees the woman's face. And who would believe a cat burglar that skilled is hanging out in Repose? It's laughable, really. Must be someone from the Capital.]