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Chief Kaden was now leaning back in his office chair with his legs splayed open and his feet planted firmly on the floor. Bringing his hands together into a clasped gesture with forefingers and thumbs pressed against one another in an L configuration; thumbs under chin and forefingers pressed to the tip of his nose, he continued with the story of Jonathan Carter and his love triangle. "I am trying my best with extradition to get Tomonasuke into the United States and here to Connecticut so that you might interview him. As I understand it, he will have an interpreter with him as he does not speak English very well. But until that time you'll have to focus your attentions on Carter. I believe that the woman interviewed by your new partner Frank will be staying here in Connecticut for another month or so, I'd like for you to also question her in regards to the disappearance of the Maryland girl."

Everyone on duty that day had been surprised by the relative calmness of the station, for the officers use to the turmoil and everyday hustle and bustle associated with protecting the public from the criminal element of society, the quietness of this day was well welcomed. Kaden's office was viewed as a sanctuary for the officers fortunate enough to have the need of visiting their captain, the solid walls and thick clouded glass which separated his office from the rest of the station acted as a buffer to the noise without. As Kaden told Leonard the tales associated with the accursed videotape he had been watching the various distorted and barely visible shadows of those passing by his office window. The stories that Kaden had been telling to his subordinate were certainly filled with disturbing imagery, but it was shadowed figures gliding across his office window which filled him with horror. After a succession of normal, shadowed human figures there came a most disturbing formation of what appeared to be a young female with unusually long straight hair. It was at the point when Kaden was discussing the case of Jonathan Carter that he began to see the strange shadowed reflections.

After one particularly beefy officer cast his shadow upon the clouded glass the shape of a dark-haired woman once again appeared within the glass. Stopping at the midpoint the shadow turned to face the glass, its head which was tilted toward the floor suddenly looked up and then in a flash the shadow cast itself against the window as if the person on the other side had intended to ram their head through the reflective surface. It wasn't so much this action which disturbed Kaden, but the fact that the shadowy figure had suddenly vanished at the point where its head should have come into contact with the glass. The calm demeanor in which Kaden had discussed the three tales suddenly shifted to out right hysteria as the terrifying events played out before him, jumping up from his chair he nervously excused himself and walked out of the office, leaving Leonard still sitting in his chair on the opposite side of the desk.