DONE AND DUSTED

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Sir, I have submitted a formal after-action report on Requiem’s response to the dimensional micro-breach at the Spolee Field paintball facility in Northeast Atlanta. It omits certain sensitive details which I wish to memorialize here for reasons that will soon become clear.

As you know, when our strike team arrived, they found the situation already contained by a paintball team comprised of 5 local college students. They were taken into custody, treated for injuries and debriefed. The problem, of course, was that they had seen too much. Releasing them risked making the public aware of the Dark Aether threat we have kept secret ever since Endstation.

My initial orders were to have them sign nondisclosure agreements threatening them with prosecution should they reveal what happened. Like you, I had my doubts that 20-somethings could keep their mouths shut, but I was still taken aback when you overrode me and took the measures that ultimately provided a cover story and discredited the survivors.

You ordered our medical team to administer doses of Phencyclidine, the drug known as “Angel Dust” that the news media associates with various murderous rampages across the country. The cover story became that Angel Dust use at Spolee Field resulted in a frenzy of violence claiming multiple lives. Despite my objections, you had the narcotic planted in the storage area where the survivors sheltered, then allowed local law enforcement to come in and connect the dots. The survivors’ claims of cannibalistic “zombies” were dismissed by police as drug-induced hallucinations.

Sir, I have participated in many questionable acts in my career. Few have shaken me like this one. I recognize your authority, but strongly request we avoid such extreme measures in the future.