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“The Shroud…Something or other.” Harry said, the words coming with a mixture of disbelief and dread. Though he tried to mask his concern, Kyle could see right through him.

“You know something.” Kyle stated.

“Maybe.” Harry said. “While I was still in the intelligence game, there was talk about an criminal organization called ‘The Shroud Syndicate.’ We didn’t know much about them, they were good at what they did, and they were…discrete.” 

“So…basically, you just have hearsay.” Kyle said, growing frustrated with the apparent lack of progress.

“I’m saying that I’ve heard of them, but I don’t know much about them, except they are the real deal, and nobody knows anything about them that they don’t want known. Kyle, these guys...they aren’t to be taken lightly. When I was working in London I heard about an agent that we had go in to infiltrate the organization. The story goes that they killed him before he was able to report back. And then they killed his wife, and his children.” Harry said, uncharacteristically shaken.

“That doesn’t sound so unusual.” Kyle said.

“Sadly it isn’t. But they didn’t just kill them, the tortured them. They cut them into pieces and left them in little boxes in front of our headquarters...just before Christmas. I assume it was their ‘gift’ to us, warning us to back off.” Harry said as he looked down to the floor.

“Kyle, if the Shroud Syndicate is here, things are going to get bad…Fast. We can’t let that happen.” Harry said with resolve returning to his voice.

Just as Kyle was about to tell his mentor that he understood, and would do whatever it took to bring down the Syndicate, a beep registered from the computer that Harry uses to monitor the city. Then came another beep, and another after that. Harry looked down at the monitor and keyed in several commands.

“We’ll have to talk about this more later, something big is going down.” Harry said as he watched his monitor. “There’s a spike of activity, 9-11 calls coming in from Chinatown. It looks like the gangs are mobilizing there and causing trouble. And not just there, it looks like the same thing is happening in the French Quarter and Little Sicily.”

“I’m on it.” Kyle said as he pulled his mask over his face and made his way to Kaiju.

“Be careful.” Harry said quietly as the supercar roared to life and took off out of The Garage toward Lost Haven.