For once it wasn't the blinding light from the sun that woke me up but the consistent vibrating from my mobile. My head shot up as I looked around for it, frantically. I finally found it and answered the call. "Hello?" I said.

"Skyla, it's Connor. You wouldn't believe how amazing this is." He began. "I need you to look through the journal and see if you can find any information about the ancient Egyptians."

I sat up the rest of the way wondering what the hell he was talking about. "What now?" I asked as a slow pain began to radiate in my head. Another hangover I would have to battle the day with.

"Egyptians, specifically Ammut. She's a goddess with crocodile features. Or anything in the journal about magnetite." Connor said with excitement. I stood up tripping again on the same shoe as last night but catching myself on the door frame. I walked out into the lounge where the journal and various books were laying around. I picked up the journal and began flipping through it, post-it notes sticking out every which way.

"Alright, alright, alright. I'm looking." I said into the mobile.

"Call me back with any information you find," he said and ended the call. I scoured through the book looking for key phrases nothing catching my eye.

"What's the point in keeping a journal if it's never bloody useful," I muttered to myself as something from one of the pages caught my eye. I flipped back to the page full of theories. Theories that explained the unexplainable of our time. Alien abductions, bright lights in the sky, and various creatures that came up through time. It mentioned the odd gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt. "Well, I'll be damned. Connor, you're onto something." I tried calling Connor back but he wasn't answering. I rushed around the house, journal in hand and placed it in one of my bags and ran to take a shower.

After showering and dressing, making myself look like I wasn't on a bender I ran out the door to my car. Well, not my car per se but the ARC's car they let me have. As Lester put it, 'We can't have someone in your position always relying on a cab.'

I sped out of the parking spot and drove towards the ARC, my mind going a hundred miles a minute. I tried calling Connor again but no luck. I ran into Nick's office, ignoring the soldiers who tried to stop me. I walked over to the whiteboard and began writing where there was clear space.

Lester walked in with some of the soldiers around him. "Skyla, what on earth do you think you are doing?" he asked. I looked over to him, feeling like I looked crazed, as I wrote as fast as the theories came to my head.

"The anomalies explain what we cant!" I said as I continued writing on the board.

"Come again?" He said.

"Aliens, Loch Ness, Bigfoot, all the other cryptids! They come from the anomalies that's why we can't prove they exist or don't! They're always coming and going." I explained hastily. I looked over and could see the gears moving in Lester's mind.

"I'll leave you to it." He said backing away and leaving me to my thoughts.

Just then my mobile started vibrating. I looked down, it was Connor. "Connor! You're a brilliant man!" I yelled into the phone as he was yelling something back. "Okay, hold on you go first."

"The magnetite is magnetic! The anomalies are magnetic fields of energy. We can move them around and possibly close them with electricity!" He squealed out like a kid.

"That's fantastic!" I said almost forgetting what I had figured out.

"Your turn," he said.

"You have to see it! I'm in the office, I'll be here when you guys get here. Nick has to see this too." I said.

"Alright, hopefully not much longer," he said.

"See you soon," I said as the line went dead. I continued on writing all the things that we as a society collectively on earth couldn't explain.

I wheeled the board from Nick's office to his lab. As I did so I saw Abby, Connor and another woman standing in the main room. "Connor! Why didn't you tell me you guys were back?" I yelled out as I turned the whiteboard off the ramp and onto the main ground.

"We - we - uh- just got back." he sputtered out.

"Right, well hurry," I said as I walked with the board over to the lab.

"This is Dr. Sarah Page, by the way," Connor said introducing me to the woman I didn't recognize. I nodded in her direction. "Skyla Lock," I said as I continued walking.

"So this is what you do here, is it? You - um - deal with these anomalies as and when they occur?" She asked.

"This is what we do," Connor answered helping me wheel it into the lab.

"Can't believe I saw Ammut, well, what the Egyptians thought was Ammut. A genuine living legend." She said as we stopped in the lab. Nick and Lester already in there discussing something.

"Exactly!" I said causing Nick to turn around to me. "Alright, think of everything we cannot explain in the past or present. Aliens, Loch Ness, bright lights in the sky or in the woods, bigfoot. What if they are or are the creatures from the anomalies?" Nick, Connor, and Sarah looked surprised at my thoughts and thought about it for a moment.

"If Pristichampsus is sunning itself on the banks of the Nile 3,000 years ago, that's the stuff of legend." Nick wondered out loud. "Anything that seems out of place, out of time like-"

"Chimera, Pegasus.." Sarah started.

"The Yeti," Connor said.

"The Hydra," Sarah said.

"Yes! It's all of them! It's in the journal. I found a page of theories all of them, like that, are on it!" I said with a large excited smile.

"I've been looking at this all wrong, I've been thinking two-dimensionally," Nick said looking at his glass board. He looked over to all of us before he approached Sarah. "How much do you know about mythological beasts?"

"Well, my thesis on it is in the British Library," Sarah said. I could tell she was curious and excited at the same time.

"She stays," Nick said looking to Lester.

"Do I get a say in any of this?" Sarah asked.

"Yes, yes, of course. I would like you to join us here at the Anomaly Research Centre. I want you working on the source of all the great myths, where they were first spotted, when, by who. Can you find a pattern? Or you can go back to lecturing school kids. Your choice." Nick offered.

Sarah looked over to Connor and me, both of us grinning and hoping she would say yes. If she knew more information on this subject then fantastic. She could help us with this new breakthrough. "Okay, I'm in." She said. Connor and I let out a yes and fist-bumped.

"Great news, I feel safer already," Lester said. "Which reminds me, Skyla we need to get you and now Sarah a badge."

"Wait, what do we do about the sun cage?" Connor asked.

"Well the anomaly's closed, might not open for another 3,000 years, if ever," Lester said.

"Yeah but it's still a risk." Nick pointed out. "It's not as if it can be on public display anymore."

"Happily, that's not our decision to make. The Culture Minister tells me the exhibition's moving on." Lester said with a hint of a smirk. Happy it was now out of our hands completely.