Twelve Rounds Into Nothing

Camera 11, mounted in the ceiling of the third-floor corridor of Annex B at Site-19, recorded the following at 03:12. The corridor is forty meters long, with an old tile floor and original wooden doors, and had been ████████████████████████ . An armed response operative, designated R-12, was on a standard sweep with orders to hold at the near end and challenge any contact.

At 00:00 of the recording a woman in a dark dress and long black hair is already standing at the far end, in front of the window. R-12 raised his rifle. She advanced at a walking pace for the first three seconds, then she ████████████████████████ , making ████████████████████████ .

At 00:03.5 R-12 fired a sustained burst. The muzzle flash saturates the frame for four frames. The woman does not slow, flinch or fall. Her body shows no injury: ████████████████████████ . The ceiling above the corridor split open instead, and plaster, glass and fragments of the wall lights fell onto the tile. The post-incident survey counted ████████████████████████ .

By 00:06 the figure had stopped about eight meters from R-12, arms lowered, facing him. A dark stain on the floor between them was sampled the same morning, and ████████████████████████ . R-12 stopped firing when his magazine ran dry and did not move again. The recording ends with the figure still and the operative still aiming.

He was found in the same position at 04:05 with a fresh magazine in the weapon and ████████████████████████ . The corridor has been sealed with concrete since, but camera 11 is still powered. Every night at 03:12 the window at the far end ████████████████████████ .