It’s a cold, wet and misty morning. It feels like an ordinary, bleak autumn day. But as you stagger to work, through the biting wind and belting rain, it strikes you that it’s been a strange week.
There was the case of the missing middle managers at the monthly briefing and the teleconference where mysterious, silent callers kept joining and dropping off.
No one has sent an all staff email about car parking or a missing cat, which is most unusual. Your boss even made a round of hot drinks. That just doesn’t happen.
It is Halloween this week, and last night there was a full moon, but you don’t believe in all that stuff….