[ Minutes after the door is unlocked and before there are files pulled out of the cabinet, there is a static. There is a buzzing. There is a hideous background noise that grows to overtake both Bruce's and Diana's thoughts -- and it does not call forth any guard or any of the patrolmen.
From that there is a voice.
It is many speaking as one and it cannot be determined if it is male, if it is female. If it is an individual and not a crowd. It is not an animal noise but it is a bellow, it is a roar, and it is angry. That voice screams to them and it says loud:
YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE.
Each of them will find themselves back in the party, and one hour will have passed. They will not recall their conversations with one another or what has been found inside the room or what they have been doing in the last hour. Each will have been in the midst of another action. Holding punch or a Christmas cookie, or laughing at a funny joke that has been made about the season. ]
YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE
From that there is a voice.
It is many speaking as one and it cannot be determined if it is male, if it is female. If it is an individual and not a crowd. It is not an animal noise but it is a bellow, it is a roar, and it is angry. That voice screams to them and it says loud:
Each of them will find themselves back in the party, and one hour will have passed. They will not recall their conversations with one another or what has been found inside the room or what they have been doing in the last hour. Each will have been in the midst of another action. Holding punch or a Christmas cookie, or laughing at a funny joke that has been made about the season. ]