Chapter One
Location: Cambridge, England
Timedate: 15th December 2012
By the rising light of the dawn, a glimpse of snow could be seen settling down upon the road and pavements in the out-skirted town, already lit up by a vast display of colourful lights and ornaments outside the houses and out in the public for all to see. Inside one of these houses, living contently and happily alone, was a middle-aged man, fifty-three years of age to be exact, sitting back comfortably on the sofa and sipping from a mug of hot chocolate.
Just then, the peace and quiet was disrupted by a faint sound of buzzing and vibrating. Looking about, the man turned his head to see his phone on the coffee table, its screen lighting up with a ringing symbol in it. After a few more buzzes and vibrations, the man moved over to set down his mug of cocoa and pick up the phone itself, swiping at the screen and putting it close to his right ear.
"Hello?" The man asked and answered.
"Dr James Bowen?" A young-sounding male voice asked back from the other end.
"You got 'im," the man, identified as 'Doctor James Bown', confirmed.
"Lin San wishes to speak to you".
"Okay, is she there with you?" James questioned.
"Speak to you as in face-to-face," the other voice specified.
"I figured," James exhaled before picking his cocoa and taking a brief sip. "Has she at least named the time and place?"
"Her office, after Christmas," the other voice answered.
"Sounds like a good date," James accepted. "I'll be ready".
"Take all the time you need, sir".
"Will do, bye," James nodded before hanging up and putting down his phone back on the table.
After the short call had ended, James' mind already started to wander about with a few rising questions: What would Lin San of all people, let alone of all the higher-ups of Monarch, want to call over James for? Why now at this time and now sooner, earlier, or later? Was it to do with certain "monster-hunting espionage missions" that he had engaged with back in the past? Or would it be to do with something that could possibly happen within the very near-future?
Only fate itself might be able to answer such...
To be continued...