Chapter 1: Introduction
The remote research facility in Valley Mantle was miles from civilization, as Dr. Sarah Thompson preferred it. Shuttered up in one of the austere, windowless buildings dedicated to pursuing the strange, she hunched over her equipment: a modified antenna system connected through a mess of power monitors and servers back to her specialized decryption software. The computer screen lights cast sinister elongated shadows around the room, hiding much like her reasons for being here.