Jen watched the television as some of the laziest news reading she had ever witnessed unfolded. As she watched, it dawned on her that she could clear the names of the innocent, but she'd have to be careful. Copying down the number as they urged anyone with information to come forwards by calling, she dug through the cupboard in the hall, looking for an old phone that had been discarded because it was a bit iffy but not entirely broken, and a spare pay-as-you-go SIM card. "Mum, I'm heading out for a bit!" She called up the stairs.
"When did you get ba-" Started the reply, but it was cut off as the door slammed shut behind Jen. She walked in no particular direction for ten minutes, then leaned against the wall, and looked at her wrist, keying the number into the phone, and pressed the green call button.
"Hello, this is the police hotline for information regarding the lake incident, do you have any information?" Said a voice on the other end of the line after eight rings.
"Yes, my name is..." Jen began, silently berating herself "Not important, but I was at the lake at the time of the explosion"
"Really?" Asked the woman "Did you see The Hive?"
"Yes, I did but he wasn't involved in the explosion, he was just at the scene. The bomber guy was operating on his own I think, he was talking to himself like he was schizophrenic or something." said Jen. "The shadow guy attacked the police without provocation, and he's definitely dangerous, the Red Chance guy is also dangerous like they said, but the guy in the hazmat suit, Neil, I think, isn't, he has something to do with acid, but he was trying to calm the others down along with a second, taller guy who I think has something to do with shadows too. The Hive guy isn't entirely innocent though, he attacked the police too, so be cautious when approaching him, but he isn't involved in any nefarious plots. The gravity guy, I don't trust, I think he has ulterior motives, but again, he wasn't connected with the bombing."
"OK miss" replied the voice on the other end "So let me clear this up. The bomber was on his own, the Hive is innocent but dangerous, Red Chance and this unnamed shadow controller are very dangerous, the gravitational manipulator is potentially dangerous, the acid man named 'Neil' is not dangerous, nor is his affiliate? Do you know anything about another man who was found in the burning forest?"
"Those are the only people I remember seeing, I don't know about anyone else. The Red guy was babbling about some water person, but I didn't see them, and I can't imagine how a Shadow with a water power would be involved in an explosion" Jen said, trying to cover her tracks as soon as.
"Thank you miss, can I take a name for you to be contacted by?" The woman asked, seemingly worried that she hadn't insisted at the start.
"No I'm afraid you can't" Jen said, hanging up, turning the phone off and saturating it with water to ruin the electrical workings. 'You're welcome guys' She thought, drying the phone and turning back towards her house, slipping out the SIM card and snapping it in half, then dropping it and crushing it under her heel.