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shoulder.
    “And where’s the guard that was posted outside this room, anyway? If you see him, tell him to get his ass in here. I wanna know why he left his post.”
    Turning her back on the doctor, she ignored his mumbling as she slowly walked over to the window.
    “What the hell…?” she whispered as she studied the huge gash in the left side of the window frame. Looking closer, she saw it was a very clean cut. She made a mental note to ask the CSI techs what could make that cut as she leaned out the window. Looking down, she could make out some type of damage to the sidewalk, but she couldn’t make out the details. Pulling her cell out, she punched the speed-dial.
    “Frank, you here yet?”
    “Just pulling in.”
    “Hey, I need to to come over to the sidewalk outside the suspect’s window. Something happened to the sidewalk that I can’t make out from here. Also, the room is a complete disaster. I’m gonna call the crime techs to have them go over this mess with a fine tooth comb. Call me back when you’re outside.”
    Ending the call, she called the precinct to tell them to send the CSI lab rats to examine the room.
    As she glanced around the room again, her phone rang.
    “Hey, are you down there yet,” she said as she walked back toward the window.
    “Yeah… Yeah I am, and you’re not going to believe what’s down here…”
    “With the way this night’s going, I’m not sure anything is going to surprise me…”
    “Yeah, well this might. I’m looking at what appear to be footprints embedded in the sidewalk, along with a huge gouge along the right side. The gouge is about 5 feet long, straight, and it appears to get deeper the farther away from the footprints it gets. Looks like something sliced through it like butter.”
    She glanced at the gash in the window frame before leaning out the window to look at her partner again.
    “That’s not as crazy as it sounds. It looks like a bomb went off in the room and there’s a huge gash in the frame… Also a clean-looking cut.”
    “Yeah, well that’s not all. Inside the, uh, ‘footprints’, the cement is crushed to powder. There’s a bunch of cracks all around the prints as well. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say our perp jumped out the window and landed here barefooted, then walked away…”
    “Yeah, well, I’d have to say you don’t know any better. Nobody jumps out a fifteen story window, lands on their feet, then walks away from it. I’m a little rusty with the math, but I’d hazard a guess and say he would have been traveling over 60 miles per hour before he hit.”
    “Whatever, just have the lab rats look this area over when they get here.”
    She saw him look up toward her before gesturing toward the window.
    “Hey Cora… Take a look to your left outside the window.”
    Leaning out further she glanced to the left.
    “Holy…”
    “What is it?”
    “Something gouged the living shit out of this wall.”
    She tried to reach the hole, but it was just out of reach.
    “Looks like we need the techs to get ahold of a window washing platform as well. Something took several huge chunks out of the side of the building, and I’m suspecting whatever did that also took the nice gash out of the window frame and left that gash in the sidewalk as well.”
    “Excuse me…”
    Cora jumped a bit at the sudden sound. She hadn’t heard anyone come up behind her.
    “Frank, I gotta go, someone’s here.”
    As she hit end, she turned toward the door, only to find someone already moving around the room.
    “Yes…? You shouldn’t be in here,” she said as she examined the stranger. The woman before her stood about five foot eleven and was dressed in what appeared to be a black silk shirt, black leather pants, knee-high Doc Martens, and topped off with a black leather trench coat. All the black contrasted starkly with her pale white skin and fiery red hair that had cinnamon streaks running through it. Her hair was tied back in a ponytail