Ranger Nogales

Dolores is home.  Her only focus is the flash drive she now holds in her hand.  With her laptop on, the Texas Ranger plugs in the drive.

A welcome message flashes across her screen, followed by a static image of the Lady In Black on video.

Lady In Black “Congratulations on knowing how to plug in a drive, Miss Nogales.  Before you check the information available on here, there are some things you need to know about.  First, the Jacks and Los Panchos gangs are small pawns on a bigger chess board.  Both of those pawns are already unfriendly to you and you need to understand that it’s not so much the fact that you’re able to arrest them while they continue to fight one another.  No.  Dolores…the problem is right now, both gangs are in a fight not just for their ideology, but for the price that’s on your head.”

Dolores looks around then back to the monitor.  She reaches instinctively for one of her pistols.

Lady In Black “Now before you get nervous or start to get the wrong idea, no.  I’m not the one who put that price there.  But I know who may be responsible.  And chances are, Miss Nogales she may be coming to collect without need of paying out to thugs she considers beneath her.  You’re going to be coming into contact soon with a contact of mine.  When you meet her, she’ll be here for the java special.  That’s how you’ll know it’s her.  You respond that you have the java super.  That way she’ll know it’s you.

Dolores shakes her head.  None of this makes sense.

Betty Drake & Lorraine Lewis

Las Vegas.

This is where Betty and Lorraine like to catch up after some time away exploring and working.  Betty has her research and Lorraine has hers.  In their hotel room, they sit together on the couch.

Betty “So you weren’t hallucinating?”

Lorraine “No!  It was…this city.”

Betty “An underwater city.  With mermaids?”

Lorraine “Come to think of it, I’m not sure if I saw a mermaid…at least not like we imagine.  But this lady…she was in orange and green and she was blond and called herself Anna.

Betty “So…there’s an underwater woman named Anna living in a city under the Atlantic.”