I asked. “Yes, Agent Byron. Please sit down,” he said. While I did not officially work for the military branch, I would often be assigned to help them out with special cases. Whenever they called me in, it usually meant there was some special task they needed done for which they did not wish to use normal military staff. Sometimes that was because it involved classified information, and sometimes it was because the person or persons involved could cause problems if things were not handled properly. Whatever it was, they would want it handled outside of normal channels with discretion. “Have you been following the trouble we have been experiencing lately with our outlying stations?” he asked. “Yes, sir. According to the stories I have heard, some kind of spirits have been taking them over. I have been told that these spirits are immune to our weapons and make dead men rise up to fight again,”
