Lost Time (The Bridge Sequence Book Two) by Nathan Hystad

Author:Nathan Hystad [Hystad, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Woodbridge Press
Published: 2021-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

5

This was the day everything was going to change. I’d woken early because I couldn’t sleep if my life depended on it. The sun hadn’t risen yet, and I showered, getting dressed before walking to the lobby. Saul was sipping a cup of coffee, and he had an extra to-go cup with him.

He passed it to me. “Here.”

“How’d you know I was coming?” I asked.

“I’ve watched you. You’re just like him. Your old man.” Saul’s beard was shaved into a goatee, and he’d applied a store-bought dye.

“That so?” I took a drink. Black coffee. Exactly what I needed.

“I met him on a dig in South America. Peru, actually. He was young, maybe twenty-seven, with a cocksure attitude and a kind of gravitational pull to him. The dig assistants all went to him for guidance, even though he wasn’t the primary in charge.” Saul peered out the window as he spoke. Snow fell lightly.

“What were you doing there?”

“I spent a couple years in the military, straight out of school. These guys were hiring experienced soldiers to protect their teams, and I was one of them. A few years younger than your dad.”

“How old are you?” I asked him, thinking he couldn’t be over sixty-five.

“Seventy-three,” he said.

He was still in great shape, his body sculpted by decades of dedication. “I’d hate to have seen you thirty years ago. How did you guys become friends?”

“We were out one night, local bar after a few successful days of scouring the jungle. Clayton was there, fresh-faced cheeks and so much optimism for the start of his career. He was on cloud nine and drank too many beers. He hit on some local woman and got decked in the face. Dirk and I intervened, and he came to Clayton’s aid even faster than I could. He moved like a snake and didn’t think twice over his own safety. Not when it came to his buddy. That’s when I knew he was a great man. We bonded over the experience, all three of us, and they brought me in, introducing me to Brian.”

“Hardy must have been an interesting character,” I said. When I’d met him, he’d been only semi-lucid, an old man on his way out.

“He was brilliant, but also nuts. I didn’t buy in to any of his stories, but once Hunter Madison became involved, I changed my mind,” Saul said.

“Why?”

“He was… Hunter was polarizing. One minute you wanted to punch him; the next he was drawing you in with a tale of different worlds. Like he’d been there. He claimed it was all speculation, but mentioned a few of his dreams.”

I almost dropped my cup. “Dreams?”

“He came up with these elaborate ideas. Visions of another planet, with cities in the clouds, beings able to speak through their minds instead of their lips. He told us he invited them.” Saul shook his head like it was all a big hoax.

“Wait. You’re saying Hunter invited someone here?” I considered what that meant. The device we’d found in his basement was clearly alien, belonging to the Unknowns.

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