Daniel Keys Moran by The Armageddon Blues

Author:The Armageddon Blues
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-04-06T00:59:15+00:00

AUGUST.

There were five of them.

It was early morning when Jalian arrived at the ranch. She introduced herself to the trainees without preamble; she did not ask their names. In short order she bundled them into the Jeep that she had come in, and drove into the desert.

The sand was noticeably warm under her moccasins when she stopped the Jeep. The five trainees got out of the Jeep, and waited for instructions.

Jalian smiled at them pleasantly. “Take your clothes off.”

One of the five undressed without hesitation. He was a seventeen year old boy named Michael Walks-Far, a mixed breed American Indian with Indian features, blond hair and blue eyes. The others looked uncertain, and Jalian repeated the order. When they were nude, she took their clothes, and tossed them into the back of the Jeep.

“It is sixty kilometers back to the ranch,” she said. “If any of you make it back by nightfall, I will begin your training.” She drove off, leaving them nude in the burning sun.

An hour before sunset, Michael Walks-Far came loping out of the desert. The sun was touching the horizon when the next recruit, a twenty-six year old woman named Sharla Davis Grant, on loan from the CIA, staggered into the drive that led up to the ranch. Jalian waited until the sun set.

To the two badly burnt trainees, she said only, “Welcome to Sunflower.” She left them to tend to each other, and went into the desert after the others.

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