Four days ago something happened that the city is already trying to bury. I have been watching the police reports closely and I know when something does not fit the usual pattern. Officers were dispatched to an alleyway after multiple calls reported gunfire. The callers said they heard shouting and then a strange wet sound that did not match anything they had ever heard before.
When the police arrived there was no one there. No bodies. No shell casings. No signs of a struggle. Only pools of black goo that looked like oil but moved in a way that oil does not move. The officers tried to cordon off the area but the goo had already begun to evaporate. It left behind a smell that people described as metallic and rotten at the same time.