Noah didn't go to bed.
He pulled open his desk drawer and took out a plain notebook and a pen. He set them on the desk in front of him and sat there for a moment looking at the blank first page.
After today he needed to write things down. Not for anyone else. Just for himself, so the information existed somewhere outside his head in a form he could look at and think through clearly. And connect the dots.
He opened to the first page and started writing.
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First Act of Chapter One: The Puppet.
He wrote everything he remembered from that day. The monsters attack on the academy. The worker named Petrick who had been controlled by another man. The thing that had been operating him from somewhere else.
He wrote it all down in order. What he had seen, what he had done, what the outcome had been.
Then he moved to the next page.
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Second Act of Chapter One: Unknown Creature.
