Los Angeles, California:
Asahi looked up from the papers inside the file he had received from Mike Hallbrook after The Phone Call, as he’d started to think of it – that unforgettable call when Mike Hallbrook had told him there really were monsters out there.
He pressed his fingers to the bridge of his nose and pinched it, trying to relieve some of the tension headache. He knew it was from staring at the same documents for hours, but that wasn’t going to stop him from staring longer.
Refocusing his attention on the report in front of him, his mind wandered to his last conversation with Mike.
“Are they real?” he remembered asking.
Mike Hallbrook’s one word answer had sent a piercing shockwave through the agent.
“Yes.”
Asahi looked up at the television when a familiar name on it caught
