Lahat ng Kabanata ng Field Team 42: Paranormal Responders: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 34

“This was Dr. Milton.” The research lab manager lifted the bloody sheet from the corpse. As an anthropologist, I’d studied and been around a lot of dead bodies, most of them skeletons that had been dead for a long, long time. I wasn’t prepared for the grotesquery that my eyes fell upon under that sheet. The man’s throat had been ripped out, savagely. I managed to not flinch or look away, though. I kept up the image of a professional who saw worse things than this all the time. I wondered how often in the future I might. The manager looked up at X, addressing him as his disguised persona. “What do you think, Mr. M?”“I think it's a good idea you called me in, sir,” X responded in his imitation of how the stereotypical Man in Black spoke, nearly monotone and emotionless, rather than his usual bouncy exuberance. “What can you tell me about other unusual things going on around here or seen around here lately? Have there been any?” X pulled from his jacket a small notebook and began taki

What we were looking for was a location where we could get a clear comm signal to Control and wait for them to come pick us up. Hopefully, we’d avoid the whole Dirt blowing in thing. It was still Saturday. We still had plenty of time, just not as much as before. As we hiked, I realized that I was a little disappointed at the proposition of being extracted from the Dust Bowl area by Control and missing the Dirt. In spite of how it might bring in horrors, I realized that a part of me actually wanted to see it. My world had become so much wider and deeper since I’d taken up X on his offer that day in my office that now seemed so long ago. During a pause on a trail we’d found that made hiking a little easier, I wiped sweat from my brow, replacing the moisture with a long pull from my canteen. I gazed at the arid Arizona landscape around me as I thought of all the strange things I’d experienced as an Agent of Control: Black-Eyed Kids, UFOs/UAPs, meeting a real mage and a real shaman, bef