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...hook his head.  "Sniper would've used a silencer.  Whatever did this... it looked like it dismembered him.  Blunt force wound to the jaw and neck, enough force to cleave the shoulder."

Blake frowned.  "Could this "darkness" have been some form of distraction?  Camouflage what was really going on?"

Dan nodded.  "But you can't create patches of darkness like that.  Darkness is just the absence of light.  This was..."

"Tangible."  Blake said.  The captain did not sound impressed.

"Tangible."  Dan echoed.  All of a sudden he felt the need for a critical stress counselor.  There'd been enough officers on the Newton force who'd seen strange stuff happen on the streets--stuff that shouldn't happen.  More than one carried personal good-luck charms.  But officers who started spouting this kind of nonsense to the wrong ears found themselves on desk-duty or worse.

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