"Freebird, Kate?"
"Here!", Kate replied, glancing over at the lady taking attendance.
She was in Rhodes, New Mexico, at the secret CIA headquarters for TAS, or the Teen Agent Specialists. Kate, who had been home in Indiana just 24 hours ago, was overwhelmed by all of the chaos that reigned in the lobby where she sat.
Everywhere she looked, kids her age and adults were speaking in different languages, picking up room keys, and heading off to their respective rooms. Each new "agent" had been assigned a dorm and a roomate, depending on their specialty.
Since Kate's specialty was in Undercover Ops., which is in the back of the alphabet, she hadn't been assigned a room yet.
"Hey there. You Kate?" Kate looked to her left to see a pretty, smiling redhead standing there.
"Um, yeah that would be me." Kate gave the other girl a confused look. "Do I know you?"
The redhead laughed. "Not yet you don't. I think we're roomates. The Linguistics specialists, that would be me, are rooming with you Undercover chicks. It looks like we're the only ones left!"
Kate looked around, now noticing that the room had almost completely cleared out. She walked up to get her room assignment, and sure enough, it said...
"Rae Hartford. Yup, that's me! Oooh, our room's on the sixth floor. That's a long walk by stairs..." Kate listened to her roommate chatter, but was immediatley distracted when theywalked up tothe door to their room. On the door, there was a small, official looking sheet of paper. It simply said,
Freebird, Hartford
Report to 1A1H at 13:00 hours.
"Alrighty then." Rae shrugged and entered the room. Kate stood looking at the paper, and heard Rae exclaim, "Holy crap, could the beds be any smaller? God, it looks like a jail cell!"
"Great," Kate thought, and with a sigh, entered the room.
Rae laughed at the look of resignation onKate's face as she entered the room, then laughed harder as it turned to shock.
The room was painted a light charcoal color that matched the carpet's dark slate gray. There was a dark wood dresser on both sides of the room, and a large floor length mirror. Kate crossed to the huge window, drew back the curtains, and looked out onto a balcony which overlooked the dry New Mexico desert.
She turned around and looked at Rae, who was testing out one of the queen sized beds the were in opposite corners of the room from each other.
"Damn."
"I know right? Who would have thought first level agents would get a room like this?"
Kate's mind flashed back to the notice hanging on their door, and how she hadn't noticed one like it on any other door in their hallway.
"Unless..."
"Unless what?" Rae asked.
"Unless we're not first level agents."
