The Major floated up—toward what he described as a vortex or “portal,” presumably like the one you yourself witnessed, Chief—and dark, shadowy figures, appearing out of nowhere, assaulted them. Both Davenport and “the Major” were decapitated in the attack, and Hastings was left unconscious, but alive, in the vacant lot. He seemed to suffer some form of memory loss about this event, and his memory returned only after his arrest. A few days later, Davenport’s severed head, aligned perversely and tenderly on the neck of the body of “The Major,” was discovered by local police in her apartment.
