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After that meeting Marvin was incredibly busy. He was given an office in the local field office and assigned two other agents to work with him. He moved all his notes out of his apartment and brought his agents up to date on what had happened so far. They were understandably skeptical, but the video coverage of Tiffany and the 'angel' convinced them to keep an open mind. None of them really believed that any of these events couldn't be explained scientifically, eventually.

The older of the two, Agent Peters, he assigned to keeping track of Tiffany. He hadn't talked to her since he talked her into spying on Ms. Kinsley for him, so he asked Agent Peters to introduce himself and find out what he could from her. Meanwhile, he sent Agent Mason to continue trying to find someone who would recognize either the man who threw the SUV, or the 'angel'.

Once his agents were given their tasks he was left to sort through the paper work. He had reports to write, and more information in that he had to look at about other events seen around the area. There wasn't anything as obvious as the other two, until that afternoon.

He was just getting back into the reports after lunch when he got a call from the local police. They'd been instructed to inform him of any other 'odd' occurrences. This time nobody saw what happened, but there was a Corvette on the roof of the police station! Agent Peters was still trying to track down Tiffany, and Agent Mason was busy showing pictures around, so Marvin went there himself.

When he got there there was a crowd of police officers looking at the car in wonder and muttering amongst themselves. He wasted fifteen minutes just getting everyone off the roof so he could look around. All those police officers had eradicated any tracks there might have been. The car seemed undamaged, and he could find nothing else unusual about it or on the roof. He went back below and had someone check the car for fingerprints, not that he expected to find any other than the owner and probably several police officers. He also had the owner of the car tracked down, so they could find out where it had been before it somehow ended up on the roof.

Is someone playing with us? he wondered as he drove back to his office. There's no reason to put a car up there, except maybe to show that they can do it. A crane could do the job, but not during the day without being seen! So how did they do it?! When he got back to the office he wrote up yet another report on the car, adding details as they came in.

The rest of the day was without incident. Agent Mason reported that no one had recognized the sketch of the man or the photograph of the 'angel'. Agent Peters said he'd missed Tiffany, but the recordings indicated that she had entered Sarah's apartment openly. So, she did contact Ms. Kinsley! That changes things! If we can't intimidate her into helping us, we're not going to get anywhere! he thought.

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By the time Marvin got to his office the next day there was already another report in for him. At exactly 7:05 am., every ATM machine in the city had suddenly ejected all the money in them! No sign of tampering could be found as yet, and no one was near most of the machines when it happened. So, like all the other strange occurrences in town, they had nothing!

He sent Agent Mason to investigate the ATM machine incident, but he knew he wouldn't find anything. He was convinced now that someone was playing with them; sending them running hither and yon fruitlessly. He just couldn't figure out why!

The only other thing of note that happened that day was when Agent Peters reported back that night to say that he had confronted Tiffany and Ms. Kinsley and Ms. Keller had come out to help her and threatened to call the police. He'd left and gone to her apartment to wait for her, but she never showed. It looks like Tiffany and Sarah are a dead end, at least for now. Just like everything else! he thought.

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The next morning was far more interesting! The first he heard of it was when he turned on the news while he was eating his breakfast. A living flame shaped like a man was walking down Main Street, setting things on fire as it went!

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 To Be Continued…
 

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