*Setting: Adele sat on her usual seat in the Councils quarters. Her black suit neatly ironed and her white shirt clean with no food marks on it whatsoever. Her hair was down and her eyes somewhat sparkling. Shuffling through some papers she quickly scanned the report that had been, and still was being, taken of the past 8 hours. The report was basically on the events at the Missile bunker, this was accompanied with a small, round disc which was CD documentation from one of the CCTV camera's looking over the bunker entrance from afar. Quickly finishing her brief look over them she then put them all in a neat pile and prepared to hand them around for her superiors to look over.*
Adele: "Ok, it's ready."
She handed the small pile of documents to the first Council member on her right whilst she set up the surveilance footage. Getting off her chair she walked to the wall behind her and pushed in a small, dark switch. With a small hum a part of the wall slid away and revealed a large Tv screen equipped with a special machine that played surveilance footage. Pushing in a small button with the word 'eject' on it she opened up the disc slot, placed the disc inside and then closed it again. She then went back to her seat and sat down, the screen stayed black.
Gian: "So, Alexie escaped?"
Adele: "Well, that's what i'm about to determine. Forensics could have made a mistake, they're still going over the footage now. This is a copy-disc."
There were some uncomfortable shuffles from around the table.
Wyles: "What about the Commandor?"
She smiled gently and yet tried to be subtle, hoping not to cause any alarm. She had heard that he had not escaped and disturbingly that had filled her Heart with utter joy and relief, even though it wasn't confirmed that he was dead...
Adele: "It seems that the Commandor never made it out. The footage only shows Alexie escaping the bunker before the explosion and even though Forensics are having trouble trying to make head and tail of the charred corpses, we're fairly certain one will be the Commandor..."
Again there were some uncomforable shuffles and, now, murmors. Not because of Iraxx's death, but because the only being they had wanted to kill was the only being that had escaped. Gian handed the documents on to the next Councillor, looked up towards the screen and shouted.
Gian: "PLAY!!"
Immediatly the screen burst into life, showing the entrance from afar. It showed the entirity of the incident, from the deaths of the Soldiers outside, to Alexie and Midian entering, to Iraxx then entering and then only Alexie leaving and about 8 seconds after that the explosion.
Gian: "Vho was the female vith Alexie?"
Adele shrugged and feigned a puzzled expression.
Adele: "We've been doing a background check for her for the past 7 hours based on the CCTV footage, so far we've turned up nothing. We're guessing she's some kind of Mage or Witch who Alexie allied with. That's all we know..."
Member #9: "And the explosion...? How was this caused?"
Leaning forward the Councillor studied Adele, the males white hair gelled back and his eyes covered with sunglass' even though they weren't needed.
Adele: "The fire was caused by the same glass balls found at the crash scene a couple of days ago and the Medical staff caught in the explosion are, like Corz, still burning. All attempts to kill them or put them out have failed...so we're now sure that it was the same female that was reported to have attacked the transport vehicle seen here."
Gian: "Rewind...pause...zoom in 25%."
He called the for disc player to rewind and in doing so called for it to pause at the moment Alexie was seen running from the bunker and towards the car he and Midian had arrived in. He then told the player to zoom in and that it did, he kept the screen on a paused close-up of Alexie rushing out and then turned his attention to Adele.
Gian: "So, the Vitch is dead? He's out there vith no protection?"
Slowly she nodded.
Adele: "Yes, i've already ordered all available resources to do a sweep of the surrounding area, so far we've found nothing, but i'm confident we will. Alexie only had a 15 minute head start..."
Wyles: "It's been 8 hours, Adele...you realise he could be on another continent by now?!?"
Adele: "The nearest continent is Mal and i've already informed all Orkhid contacts on there to be on the lookout. Don't worry...we'll catch him."
As she stated these final words there was a hard bang as the two doors flung open and crashed against the walls, this was closely followed by a hard, raspy voice.
Voice: "No, A-Adele...yo...ou...won't."
There was a eerie shuffling noise as the creature dragged itself in to the Councils chambers and then stared viciously at the female. It was at this point Adele knew she was totally f*cked.
Adele: "I-Iraxx...?!"
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