The computer warmed up, and Brigid began tapping the keys. Her machine at the division was voice activated, and a manual keyboard seemed slow and clumsy. She entered the data she had glimpsed on a Department of Defense document, bearing the date of April 30, 1994.
Since she had merely glanced at it, no one would suspect her memory retained almost every word and punctuation mark. She did not input the document verbatim, since the Preservationists encouraged extrapolation.
Possible Origin of Magistrate DivisionSource DoD Document, Dated 4/30/94
The concept of a one-world government was known in predark vernacular as the “New World Order.” The globalist view was opposed by many American citizens as a conspiracy to remove legal and civil rights granted to them by the Constitution (re. file 01405). The conspiracy theories were given a degree of plausibility by the so-called Black Helicopter Phenomenon, circa 1970 through 1997. Black and silent, these helicopters were unmarked and therefore unidentifiable. At first reported in remote areas, the aircraft seemed to be engaged in clandestine missions. They were repeatedly seen in conjunction with what was known as Unidentified Flying Objects (Re. file 65391). Contemporaneous with these sightings of both black helicopters and UFOs was the mystery of mutilated farm animals and, occasionally, human beings.
Self-professed UFO investigators speculated that the helicopters were part of a covert military force, working in tandem with extraterrestrials. The extraterrestrials allegedly required animal tissue and blood for sustenance, or for the genetic process of creating alien-human hybrids (re. file 89003).
Though the DoD document does not directly address this possibility, it does refer to the Archon Directive as the project overseeing the animal mutilations. The document also states quite clearly that one aspect of the mutilations dealt with the secret testing of bio-warfare agents, including viruses specifically targeting certain ethnic groups, as part of the Human Genome Project.
The document also makes reference to urban-warfare training programs wherein house-to-house searches for illegal firearms were conducted in major cities during the early 1990s. Men in black armor, disgorged from black helicopters, conducted these searches.
In 1992, Alaska hosted an event referred to as Police 2000, with participating military and police personnel from America, Russia and Canada all merging to form a transnational police organization, designed to “protect the coming global village.” Obviously, by the time of the nukecaust, the creation of an international police force was well under way. The DoD document mentions PPD-25, a presidential directive signed in 1994 that opened the door to direct intervention in domestic affairs by officers of this international police agency. The document defines quite frankly the broad powers granted to this “supranational authority to enforce the edicts of the New World Order.”
Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the formation of what evolved into the Magistrate Division was already under way. The document makes this statement “Their authority will be based on internal disruption of current societal norms.”
Brigid took a breath and raised her arms above her head, arching her back to work out the kinks in her shoulder muscles. She tried to keep her mind empty, visualizing nothing but the rest of the document.
The bedroom door swung open, and her head swiveled toward it so quickly she felt a twinge of tendon pain. Immediately, almost instinctively, she swept her hand across the keyboard, hitting the Escape button, clearing the screen of its data.
She stared at a dark-haired, clean-shaven man in a long black overcoat. Though she couldn’t see it, she almost felt the bore of the Sin Eater trained on her naked body.
Nothing had been true.
It had all been a trap after all.
The Magistrates had found her.
Chapter Nine
For the second time that night, Kane wasn’t quite sure of what he was looking at. This time, at least, despite his alcohol-impaired reactions, he was able to quickly identify and catalog what his vision transmitted to his brain.
He looked at the naked figure leaping to her feet, and he recognized a truly beautiful woman. Her hair was wild and wavy and thick, falling artlessly over her bare shoulders. Her features were delicate, striking. A blush crept from the base of her slim neck and moved up across her face, finally becoming lost in her red-gold mane. Her complexion, fair and lightly dusted with freckles across her nose and cheeks, was left a rosy pink in its wake. Her bespectacled eyes weren’t just green; they were a deep, clear emerald, glittering now in sudden fright.