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All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3100053/dod-announces-the-establishment-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office/

https://boingboing.net/2022/07/22/department-of-defense-announces-ambiguous-and-disquieting-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office.html

https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-creates-new-anomaly-resolution-office-investigate-ufos-1726540

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3gj8/the-pentagon-is-opening-its-own-x-files-department-to-study-ufos

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Ellie looked at both of them. Then Sophie noticed she wasn’t quite looking at them, she was looking somewhere between them, her gaze wandering slightly and unfocussed. They had wrapped her in pressure bandages, and had stemmed the bleeding, but Sophie hoped whoever it was she had called to would get here soon. She was worried about her state, though she seemed to be stable.

Ellies eyes closed, and layed here head down on the pillow. Sophie looked at her chest, and put her ear to her mouth. She was still breathing fine, she just seemed to be asleep.

“I think she’s a bit out of it. I hope her friend comes soon” Sophie said.

Tomoko had a look of concern strewn across her face “We will have to go downstairs, they will not be able to get in. We can look out the veranda” Tomoko turned to the open doors looking out of the apartment, “Sophie!” Tomoko was looking down at the dreamcast headset, which were sitting on the chair out on the veranda.

“I didn’t use it.” Sophie replied, her hands raised, shaking her head.

“Sophie, you use that, you will become a summoner.”

Tomoko put her hand out open palmed towards Sophie “Give me the headset… you cannot use that anymore.”

“No,” Sophie replied.

“You are crazy.” Tomoko grabbed the headphones out of her hand, but Sophie held on to them tight, putting one hand on the headset, her other hand securing Tomoko’s.

“Ok, okay, listen I promise I won’t use it, without talking it over with you.”

“OK” Tomoko’s hand lifted off the Headset “You use it… and you will become a summoner”

“I’m already a summoner…”

Sophie heard a strange noise, a clicking sound.

She turned around to see Ellie pointing a pistol at them.

Ellie was looking at them, out of focus, blinking, trying to see.

“You’re… you’re a summoner?” She said.

Then Sophie saw the flash of the muzzle, and a loud bang reverberated through the apartment.

Chapter Ellie

Sophie threw herself to the ground, behind a bed and saw Tomoko do the same. Ellie kept firing. Bullets ripped through the air, but they were wild and high. Ellie adjusted her aim and she fired off a number of rounds that went into the bed.

The gun clicked repeatedly, empty of bullets.

Sophie hopped up from the floor, the glyph for a sleep spell in her hand. She threw it with gusto at the prone shooter who was staring at the gun as it clicked. She then saw that Tomoko was doing the same, perhaps just a second after her.

Ellie slumped back then slid down the wall, asleep.

They both froze looking at each other. Sophie looked around the room, there was still smoke rizing from the gun, the smell of gunpowder, and the ringing in her ears. There were bullet holes in the walls and the bed.

She looked down at her body, she wasn’t hit

“Sophie are you ok?” There was concern in Tomoko’s voice.

“Yes I’m fine. You?”

Tomoko patted herself down, partially in shock. “Yes, I think so”

They looked at each other silently, looked at Ellie, then looked back at each other.

For a moment there was silence, then there was yelling, screaming from the rest of the hotel.

Sophie could hear multiple doors opening, movement outside. She locked the door.

“We have to go, now”

“How?”

“Err,” Sophie looked around “Can you fly us out the window, down to the scoots”

“Oh” Tomoko was still looking around “Yes, I can carry you”

“Quick, get the stuff”

Sophie wasn’t sure how long they had. She looked around the room, she grabbed a bag, put clothes in it. She could hear people outside, calling out, someone still screaming. People asking if anyone was hurt. Then there was banging on the door

“Hey. IN there, are you ok? Is anyone hurt?”

They looked at each other, and Tomoko shook her head, putting a single finger to her lips to indicate quiet. They gathered the last of their things, Tomoko hand flicked through the air, making a practiced fly glyph, which looked like the shape of birds wings with two horizontal lines.

She floated them out the veranda window, just as they landed, people were coming over to the hotel.

They walked quickly, Sophie fighting the urge to run so that they wouldn’t get attention. They pushed their scooters away from the hotel, and once out of sight, started them and headed off down the street as fast as they could.

Sophie didn’t know where they were going, but as long as they got their fast and it was away from the hotel

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