<div class="floatleft"><div align="center">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/fd78/8ci8pyy2minpb9izg.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Shadow</span></span><br/>   ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾   </div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">Where: Under the very center of a 5 sided building in Arlington<br/>‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾</span></span><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>We wait patiently while our forces assemble. They think we assemble in a <abbr title="Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility">SCIF</abbr> and we do. Repurposed in the ‘80s when we realized we had the opening and the climate has only improved since. Our membership grows slowly. Our agents in Colorado Springs and Annapolis and West Point identify candidates and our agents in the field monitor and eventually at places like Monterrey and Ft. McNair and Newport and west of Creech our members learn their purpose and our mission. Only active duty <abbr title="General Officers">GOs</abbr> here at the center. Retirees have their own place in the bedrock below the southern end of Manhattan where they operate the world economy and the propaganda machine that is the world press. Our counterparts in Moscow and Beijing \and Brussels all do their parts. The people are ours to harvest as we need.<br/><br/>Today though, we have a mission. Brussels tells us they’ve located the escapee and her party. We have options to present from the lower order and perhaps new things for us to develop. Today we begin planning.<br/><br/>A few more enter. The last nods and pulls the door closed. Any after will simply go their own way, knowing that we must proceed without them. Trust among these initiates is implicit even though the public perceives much dissension as we have designed the propaganda. We raise our hand and the talk subsides.</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">  “All hail, the Speaker!”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">  “All hail, the Speaker!” they reply.</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">  “Please read your briefing material. The witch Chloe Dawson has been located. Her escape is unprecedented. Today we discuss eliminating Dawson and her companions as a threat. At another time we will debrief you on how she and her companions escaped their certain destruction.”</span></span><br/>