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Wednesday, February 18

See No Evil: Prologue

NEW YORK CITY, NY—Joe Fontaine, formerly Agent Archive, sat glumly in his cell. He had been transported, roughly, from holding cell to holding cell on trumped up charges. The charges started with impersonating a government agent, even though Major Sprague knew full well that Archive had been on Majestic-12’s payroll under Agent Drake. But all that had changed when Sprague took over.

Waiting hours to even understand the full range of the charges, Agent Green rattled off a long list of charges that would leave him rotting in a prison for the rest of his life. Never mind that Green was the agent who had recruited him into Majestic-12 in the first place. She did him a favor by merely lowering his charges to trespassing and paying a fine. And throwing him out of the state of Alabama.

But it wasn’t that simple. Archive had just gotten his boss at X-Investigations, to pay the bail when he was pulled over by the police. Agent Green hadn’t seen fit to notify the authorities.

Archive waited patiently for his phone call.

A large man with a moustache that blended in with his sideburns and his mullet, both arms covered with tattoos, stared at him from across the cell.

“Hey,” he said.

Archive swallowed. “Yeah?”

“They say you’re a Fed. That true?”

“Not anymore,” said Archive truthfully.

“Screwed up, huh?”

Archive frowned. “In a manner of speaking yeah.” [MORE]

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