Northern Lights Turned Red
General Summary
Dec. 20, 1994
Agent Julia Rothman sipped on her latte from a trendy cafe in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, frowning at the papers she'd received from Alaska this morning. According to the police reports a handful of college students traveling through the Alaskan wilderness during their winter break were attacked by a rogue grizzly bear on Dec. 13, their tour guide killed and one of them barely surviving a mauling before receiving treatment at a hospital in Anchorage. The report made it seem like an open-and-shut case of kids getting caught unprepared for Alaska's merciless winter, but the facts weren't adding up for Julia. The grizzly bear attack made no sense, most were in hibernation by this time of year and none had been spotted around the site of the accident. The attack happened near a middle-of-nowhere town called Ironwood, but when the Sheriff visited a couple days later nobody there had even seen the kids before or after the attack. A snowstorm on the night of the incident made it difficult to recover the tour guide's body, and from the tone of the reports it appeared that the local law enforcement had little interest in continuing the investigation. But what stuck in her mind, and the reason the papers ended up on her desk, were the interviews with the kids where they insisted that Ironwood was a village full of vampires that sacrificed their tour guide to an ancient vampiric being. The Sheriff dismissed these responses as nothing more than a cocktail of shock, alcohol, and painkillers, but somebody up in Anchorage must have had her same suspicions if they had forwarded them to her. Whether it was a terrorist bombing in Vegas, attacks on park rangers near the Canadian border, or an alleged bear attack in Alaska, it kept coming back to vampires. How many of these vampires were there if they could be found all throughout the west, and how powerful were they if they could get law enforcement to brush allegations like this under the rug? Julia remembered her conversation with Wesley back in DC, about no matter how crazy things seemed it was best to keep digging. "We're living in crazy times," he'd said. "May as well get a little crazy to deal with it." Drinking the dregs of her latte, she got up to head back to the office. She'd need some extra manpower and funding for the case she was building.
Agent Julia Rothman sipped on her latte from a trendy cafe in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, frowning at the papers she'd received from Alaska this morning. According to the police reports a handful of college students traveling through the Alaskan wilderness during their winter break were attacked by a rogue grizzly bear on Dec. 13, their tour guide killed and one of them barely surviving a mauling before receiving treatment at a hospital in Anchorage. The report made it seem like an open-and-shut case of kids getting caught unprepared for Alaska's merciless winter, but the facts weren't adding up for Julia. The grizzly bear attack made no sense, most were in hibernation by this time of year and none had been spotted around the site of the accident. The attack happened near a middle-of-nowhere town called Ironwood, but when the Sheriff visited a couple days later nobody there had even seen the kids before or after the attack. A snowstorm on the night of the incident made it difficult to recover the tour guide's body, and from the tone of the reports it appeared that the local law enforcement had little interest in continuing the investigation. But what stuck in her mind, and the reason the papers ended up on her desk, were the interviews with the kids where they insisted that Ironwood was a village full of vampires that sacrificed their tour guide to an ancient vampiric being. The Sheriff dismissed these responses as nothing more than a cocktail of shock, alcohol, and painkillers, but somebody up in Anchorage must have had her same suspicions if they had forwarded them to her. Whether it was a terrorist bombing in Vegas, attacks on park rangers near the Canadian border, or an alleged bear attack in Alaska, it kept coming back to vampires. How many of these vampires were there if they could be found all throughout the west, and how powerful were they if they could get law enforcement to brush allegations like this under the rug? Julia remembered her conversation with Wesley back in DC, about no matter how crazy things seemed it was best to keep digging. "We're living in crazy times," he'd said. "May as well get a little crazy to deal with it." Drinking the dregs of her latte, she got up to head back to the office. She'd need some extra manpower and funding for the case she was building.
Report Date
24 Nov 2023
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Featured Characters
- Dani Cooper
- Frank Lambert
- Ross Payne
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