Setting up
The officers worked with efficiency, unfolding a portable table in the garden and lining the strange devices neatly in a row. The sight of them all together was even more disturbing, like trophies taken from her own home. They connected wires to diagnostic screens, small beeps and clicks breaking the silence. Linda hovered nearby, her anxiety mounting. She wanted to look away, yet her fear kept pulling her closer to the table.
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