WITCH ASTEROID

Watery snow clings to frozen mud. Mist rolls off the river and obscures the sun. Christian: Rowan Finch. Asher: Gavin "Warp Pipe" Townsend. Rob: Alexei Yemulov. Gavin's Palace DAY 1, 01/08/2001, Monday. 4:00PM. The cell sees it. But now it's gone. They take time investigating the Lin's house. Gavin checks the nightstand and finds a bible and depression meds. The photo on top of the stand flings on to the ground and shatters. Gavin picks up the photo, cutting his hand on a piece of glass. The photo is a couple in marriage attire standing in front of a bright red barn. A note behind it, torn from lined notebook paper: "PROMISE ME SARAH. TAKE CARE OF ME. NEVER INSTITUTIONALIZE ME. YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU." Rowan checks the closet. Nothing but dark women's clothes.  Gavin goes to open the windows, but they shatter inward, covering the room in a supernatural darkness. The cell suspects Sin activity. The eyes in the darkness reappear, flinging a frame off the...

Population 900. A fading timber and agricultural hamlet tucked into the damp forested ridges of Clackamas County. Christian: Rowan Finch. Asher: Gavin "Warp Pipe" Townsend. Rob: Alexei Yemulov. The Lin's Residence DAY 1, 01/08/2001, Monday. 8:00AM. Introductions. Gavin, 16, sits in a CAIN facility high-school education class. US history. The teacher drones on about how the WWII attack on Hiroshima was actually a bound Centipede Sin used as an occult weapon of mass destruction by the USOC. CAIN wasted no time in dismantling the department. Gavin feigns attention while playing Tetris 2 on his smuggled Gameboy. Moppy brown hair, little chubby, thick rectangle-frame glasses. The door opens and Blackout Scope, smoking a cigarette in the classroom, calls the boy out into the hallway, recruiting him into the newly assembled Cat 1 exorcist cell 12X06. Rowan, 20, is called into CASTLE Director Avory Shell's office. Rowan's sharply dressed, reddish-brown long hair, slight ...