Scene Thirty Eight: Army HQ
Head of the armed services General Sir Charles Humphries:
The area around the Magnusson house is like nuclear fallout area. The town has been reduced to rubble and the surrounding district is contaminated with debris. I want to know why this happened, and I want to know who is responsible. Colonel Phillips, you have the information, please give us the reasons.
Colonel Phillips: (Intelligence Corps)
We cannot understand why the blast reacted as it did. The calculations were correct, the proportion of explosives were correct also. The blast-holder should have protected the area but it didn’t. The area just beneath the foundations came outwards when everything should have gone upwards. The foundations are still intact and the house is the only one left standing within three miles. It is absolutely unbelievable.
General Sir Charles Humphries:
Was the proportion of explosives capable of producing that much damage on its own?
Colonel Phillips:
No, sir, there is no way that the amount of explosives used on the house was capable of creating so much damage.
General Sir Charles Humphries:
Then why did it?
Colonel Phillips:
We simply don’t know, sir.
General Sir Charles Humphries:
I want to see this Magnusson person.
Colonel Phillips:
I have already tried to get information about his whereabouts but it seems that the Special Branch has him at some secret location.
The debate went on for a long time, but nothing was decided about the actual truth.
The same debate was happening at parliament, but no one would admit that the damage was caused by a mythical creature.