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assaulted, one thing is certain. By the time the officers reacted, Smoot was rendered unconscious while The Guardian Angel jumped off the bridge himself, and vanished.

    “Whoa.” Kendall shivered and rubbed her arms for warmth. If the impossible actions of the masked man weren’t enough to rattle her, the similarities to both Dave’s inexplicable behavior and her attacker’s were too much to ignore. But before she could puzzle out what sort of crazy contagion had afflicted these unconnected people, another headline convinced her that no matter how bizarre her own life had become, it could always be worse.

    Masked Men, Red Eyes and Zombies, Oh My
    Authorities are still trying to untangle the violence that erupted during a concert in Stern Grove last night. As jazz band Carrot Seeds wrapped up its set, twenty-four-year-old Dodi Joaquin pulled a Swiss Army knife and screamed that his dead father was stalking him. Joaquin’s partner, photojournalist Dennis Sondenhein, claimed he saw the supposedly deceased man as well, with one startling exception. According to Sondenheim’s statement, he claims “the image of the man looked like Dodi’s father, but his eyes were glowing neon red.”
    Bystanders were attempting to subdue the knife-wielding Joaquin when a masked man identified as The Guardian Angel appeared. But rather than apprehending Joaquin, San Francisco’s masked hero inexplicably went after someone in the crowd. After a brief tussle with this unidentified person, The Guardian Angel was reportedly thrown several feet into a concession stand while Joaquin was at last subdued by fellow concert-goers. Both The Guardian Angel and the individual he attacked disappeared in the confusion, while Joaquin was taken into custody by park officials. Both he and Sondenheim had traces of THC in their systems, the active ingredient in marijuana.

    A low whistle escaped Kendall as she reread the story. While it was comforting that someone else had seen a discoloration in the eyes in association with a burst of violence, the color she’d seen was white, not a glowing neon red. Again her brain obediently offered up Zeke’s question about eye color, but she shoved it away with a growl. He’d made it all too obvious that door was locked, sealed and bricked over, and if she tried to force it open, his official plan of action was to make her feel like a babbling loon. Bastard.
    Without warning, her heart froze as an all-too-familiar headline leapt out at her.

    Guardian Angel Couldn’t Stop a Grisly Murder-Suicide at Fisherman’s Wharf
    Tourists got to see much more than the seals near Fisherman’s Wharf last night, when fifty-five-year-old unemployed handyman James “Jimbo” Denton attacked and killed his female companion, forty-five-year-old Angelique Raspberry, before killing himself. Witness reports are contradictory, running the gamut from the couple peacefully sharing a bag of popcorn to engaging in a shouting match preceding the violence. To further confuse the issue, a security guard claims that as he approached the scene, a masked man dressed as The Guardian Angel suddenly appeared and attempted to break Denton’s grip on Raspberry, but was repelled. According to the guard and other witnesses, after strangling Raspberry, Denton then put his fist through a nearby popcorn vendor’s glass display case, retrieved a shard, and slit his own throat. Both Denton and Raspberry were pronounced dead at the scene. There are no reports of where The Guardian Angel went in the aftermath.

    It was her story, Kendall realized, stunned. This incident was part of the murder-suicide story she had given to Dave to lead off the newscast. Little did she know her masked hero had tried to save the day there, too.
    Tried, and failed.
    Goose bumps broke out when her attention snagged on how the two people died. Just as she had nearly been choked to death, Angelique Raspberry had been brutally strangled. And just as Dave Beamer had taken the