48. Damage Control

"What the literal fuck was that!" Professor Kelly stopped pacing long enough to ask President Walters. 

The conference room exploded with noise as different people questioned the president all at once. Now that the faculty were out of sight of their students, they felt able to drop their professional facades and express their true feelings. Professor Klein looked around at her colleagues and realized most of them were scared witless. She would normally try and calm the room but today she didn't have the strength for that. Instead, she lowered her head and did her best to tune it out. The door opened and closed, and the room fell silent.

"The last of the students have been escorted safely to their dorms and informed not to leave them until security tells them it's safe to do so," the large, blonde officer reported.