[i]All they did was look at stupid video footage.[/i]

Every day, they'd review footage from the last few nights to try and catch faces, or any identifying traits. Every evening, they'd scan the camera feed for people breaking curfew. And there was almost always nothing, and if there [i]was[/i] something, there was almost always nothing to do about it.

It almost bored Paige. But she had learned to pre-occupy herself while she was reviewing tapes on the few large screens placed right in front of her, angled so that she and the rest of the surveillance team could easily see all that was going on. There was almost nothing going on in the city that they didn't know about. Even still, there was little to no action. The Sprayers were getting better at their trade; hiding, that is. The dark alleyways could hardly pick up any light, and the cameras positioned there were basically useless after the sun went down. If they were so unfortunate to be caught on camera, they had their faces covered. 

The only relatively exciting thing that had happened was the 'X'ing.

Only a few days ago, the law enforcers, along with the general population of the city, gazed at the red X's that were spattered about the city. Paige had only seen one, when she had walked towards the monorail station on her way to work, but it was a phenomenon everyone seemed to recognize. The surveillance team was still unaware of who had tagged the walls, but they were quick to call in the cleanup crew, who painted over the vandalism right away. As of that day, the team's responsibility was to find who had sprayed the X's all over the city.

Paige's eyes drooped a little, and she reached into her pocket, unwrapping a stick of mint gum and popping it into her mouth. Chewing thoughtfully, she crinkled up the metallic wrapper and aimed for the recycling bin. Drawing back her arm, she gave it a light toss, only using the momentum of her elbow and not her full arm to propel the bullet into the basket.

She missed.

Swiveling back around in her chair, Paige stared at the footage, waiting for Mallory to return.