Day of the Delphi by Jon Land

Author:Jon Land
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Johnny Wareagle sat in front of the steaming coffee that turned his insides sour on its way down. He never drank coffee, drank nothing like it other than the teas he concocted and bagged himself. But he wanted to seem as normal as possible to those inside Carrizozo, New Mexico’s lone diner. He wanted the waitress to accept him so the questioning process would go smoothly.

“I get you anything else, honey?” she asked, holding a fresh pot of the black acid in hand.

“No, thank you.”

“Man your size really should eat more. How ’bout it? Bacon and eggs? Maybe a side of flapjacks? Come on, I’ll even go back and make them myself.”

“Sorry, no.”

The diner and Carrizozo were located at the virtual beginning of White Sands, the rolling endless expanse of land in plain view outside any window. He’d come here straight from Tyson Gash and the 911 in the hope that someone inside would know what in White Sands had led to Traggeo being brought to the area. Johnny wasn’t getting his hopes up.

“You heading to the reservation?” The waitress appeared eager to talk.

“Excuse me?”

“We got lots of ’em couple hundred miles west of here. Lots like you, Indians I mean, stop here on their way.” She chuckled. “Guess they don’t have much of a choice. This is the last stop there is.”

. “Who else stops here?”

“You mean regularly?”

“If there is anyone.”

“Not many ’sides tourists and the usual truckers hauling loads to and from Mexico. Used to be better. Not too long ago, either. We actually went back to operating twenty-four hours a day when the construction teams were around.” “Construction teams,” Johnny repeated, a sensation like static pricking at his skin.

“Sure. Must have been hundred-man crews, and near as I could tell they were running shifts ’round the clock.”

“Building what?”

The waitress leaned forward and lowered her voice to a whisper, the coffeepot a memory in her hand. “I heard it said it was a new army base, but the real truth is that the government needed another place to put all the space aliens that they been collecting for decades.”

“Have you ever seen this base?”

She shook her head. “Never seen it myself and never met anyone who has, ’sides the workers. I’m never going to, either, since they never got it finished. Ran out of money or something, or the aliens died most likely.”

“I know these parts,” Johnny lied, “and I’ve never noticed such a place.”

“That’s the point,” the waitress scoffed at him. “Don’t you get it? A place the government plans to stash aliens they don’t exactly want to advertise. They built it on the way to Alamogordo, of all places, on roads unmarked and hidden. They built it so even if you happened to get yourself lost and pass by, you might not even notice on account of it’s the same color as the sand. I heard it said it damn near disappears at night.”

“Can you show me where it is?” Johnny asked her.

“You got a map?”

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