Page 369 of Chaos has a Name
“Coffee,” Gene said. “If I don’t get some, I’m going to be a bitch today.”
Well, no one wanted that.
They all needed to be on their games.
Picking up all of the blankets and pillows, Gene pulled the trapdoor, and they saw Muriel right there. Clearly, they had a changing of shift.
“Hey,” she said. “Morning. Elizabeth and Callen are inside. They were up most of the night.”
Well, that was the most normal thing.
Together, they headed down, one-by-one. When they reached the ground, Chris looked around.
“I love waking up to the silence of the trees and woods,” he admitted. “Camping is fun.”
Muriel laughed.
She’d just gotten on duty, and Demeter was taking a few hours of downtime. Before he went off duty an hour ago, he clued her in.
“It wasn’t silent last night.”
All three of them looked over at her.
“What does that mean?” Ethan asked.
She pulled out her phone and read the report that Michael had filed for Ivan, and copied all of them so everyone was on the same page.
‘At roughly zero one hundred, the sounds of an odd whistle rang out through the grounds. We locked down the Blackhawks in the treehouse, until Elizabeth and Callen were awoken by it.
Elizabeth refused to let us patrol the woods, and instead, she and Callen climbed out of the tree to ensure Wyler, who was alone inside, was safe. They remained inside for the night, and were still there as I went off shift at zero five hundred.
Gene, Ethan, and Chris remained inside the treehouse and is currently being guarded by Muriel.’
When Gene read that, he didn’t like it.
Not.
At.
All.
Ethan either.
“It’s taunting her, and us. It’s trying to remind us that it’s watching, and can get to us at any time.”
Well, that was alarming because it could.
Thank God the kids and family were safely tucked away at the hotel. They just needed to get this solved so they could ensure Elizabeth’s safety.
Blackhawk handed Muriel her phone back.
“Thank you for letting us know,” he said.
She tapped her fingers against her temple.
“No problem, bosses.”
Carrying their things, they headed toward the back of the cabin, and to the door that accessed the kitchen.
