Evening mystery

It's late and most of the employees are City Hall have gone home already. Even Ashley had just left 10 minutes ago after the busy day. As for you, you're sitting in your office watching the news on mute. Your press conference couldn't have gone any better and now the talking heads are speculating about you and your made up back story. A congressman they have on is wondering out loud how many aliens there are on the planet and whether your announcement will bring more out of hiding. Pretty much the whole world is talking about you right now and there's really no going back.

In the meantime, it looks like your approval ratings have gone up due to your heroics and some people are already wondering whether you might seek higher office. Earlier today, you had read an article online by a legal scholar on whether you could legally run for president as an alien. His conclusion was dubious, but it certainly raised a question that you hadn't thought of until now. What is the limit of what you can do? It's 1 thing to become mayor, but to become president, you would really have to work for it. It's not like you could use your mind control ability on the entire country and even if you could, you're not sure that would be wise just because you're afraid you might mess people's minds up. You certainly don't want to be the reason why humanity suddenly got collectively brainwashed and then everything burned to the ground.

You should be tired, but the adrenaline and excitement of the day still has you pretty juiced up and you're not ready to go back to the mansion yet. You're thinking about what to do for the evening when you hear a knock.

"Ashley? Is that you? You can come in!" you call out in the direction of the door. There's no answer so you get up and go to the door. However, when you open it, there's nobody outside. You're wondering if you had misheard when you hear another knock. You look around your office in the direction of the sound. The knock had come from the right side of your office where the window looks out on the street. It's already dark outside and you can't see anything, but you pause just as you're about to turn away from the window. It's dark outside and you're in downtown New York. You should be able to see lights outside. It's the city that never sleeps after all.

Puzzled, you approach the window to check out what's going on.