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FILE 023: SUBJECT 3: THE ELECTRIC WOMAN
If they're coming, they're definitely taking their sweet time about it. Fuck, it's cold! I wish I'd brought my scarf, but that would require heading back home for that. Oh, I must be bloody crazy stood out here in the middle of a frigging stone circle on a freezing cold day. I may have to give them a piece of my mind when they arrive.
Maybe. You never quite know with supernatural entities, do you?
Roper had hovered over the link to Subject 3. I'll never forget that look on his face. This was worse than fear. This was pure terror. This was something deep and primal. I had gently moved his hand away from the mouse and, smiling sadly at him, had clicked the link myself.
It was a scant read. Subject 3, or the Electric Woman, had been seen on a number of occasions throughout the decades. One of these events titled "The Crossley Farm Affair" led to a dead link. Roper had looked deeper into the file and discovered it had been erased sometime ago by someone called Albert Knox. A lot of the sightings of her had been fleeting and very brief. Some witness reports had detailed how she had seduced the husbands or partners of women and they had never been seen again. She'd been seen hanging around church ruins not far from here - Owlston - and had been named the Electric Woman due to the strange effect of her eyes. One witness had claimed he had gotten so close that he had seen tendrils of light in her silver irises.
And then there was a link to "Hell".
I'd swallowed and glanced over to Roper, who was looking more composed. More resolute. I had been ready to click on the link when he had stopped me. He wanted to tell me this himself. Somehow I felt he needed to tell me to get it out of his system more than anything. And so I let him.
Okay, folks, it's showtime. I think they here. Except...now I don't know if I want to give them the Angel Ring. I guess I don't have much of a choice now, do I? I'll be right back. I hope!
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