Almond sighed again. There didn't seem to be anything happening. Something should've been happening. This was the beginning or the end, and all any of the news stations were doing was talking to crack pot religious fanatics or the same military officers over and over again about how much danger they were in, what could be done to make things better, and so on and so on about all the things they needed to pay for that would keep the country, no the world, safe. It was obviously a grab for more funding, but Almond didn't say anything about it. Why bother? Nobody was going to listen to him, and if he did, all he'd get for a reply was a shaking head and a lecture about how he should be more positive. Why? He was positive! There wasn't any doubt at all the military guy wanted money. How was that for being positive?
Something tickled the back of his mind and then he realized there was someone else in the room. He didn't bother trying to hide his curiosity. After all it wasn't anything weird to wonder about who you were alone in a building with, staff excluded. She looked a little familiar, but that was probably just due to the fact everyone came to the same place. Before he could open his mouth one of the waitresses stopped by and put down a cup down the table in front of him. "Here you go." She said without any mindfulness of her duty and then hurried off before he could let her know he hadn't ordered anything else. He watched the woman get back into her group and then shrugged. He turned his attention back to the coffee for a few seconds before deciding it probably wasn't poisoned and taking a quick sip. "Yum."
A few second went by like school children learning to do cartwheels, oddly bumpy before he turned back to the young woman. "What do you think?" He said to her from his table. He would've added more, but he wasn't sure if he was curious if she thought the military wanted more funds or if the world was going to end.
"Oh my god!" It was one of the women from the group. Her face had gone white and so had the others. "They all pointed at the television." It was odd since nobody else was paying any attention to anything else. On the screen there had been the rip, the military forces(infantry, and then tanks with artillery a little further back), but now, right outside the possible wormhole black soldiers were pouring out. At least that's what they looked like from a distance, but several close ups revealed the soldiers weren't people at all. They looked were in the shape of the soldiers, with their helmets and guns slung on their backs, but they appeared to be made of some kind of stone that was much blacker than even Obsidian.