John Garrod

The Heartbroken Locket

Major Humberto Gilead sighs as the courier bag is dropped on his desk. Normally he enjoys his work; that’s why he insists on doing this himself, instead of delegating it to one of his many underlings. He has a talent for this kind of thing; putting together pieces of a puzzle to develop a bigger picture, including all the undisclosed peripheral pieces. He was able to put aside the sad human aspects of the job; this evidence was generally collected from the bodies of dead resistance fighters, or from those unfortunate enough to have been captured alive. After all, his work was important: By identifying the rebels, he could piece together their families, and that often led to capturing rebels before they even got a chance to do any harm.