Outland (World-Lines Book 1) by Taylor Dennis

Author:Taylor, Dennis [Taylor, Dennis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Activity

True to their word, the men met early Sunday morning at the warehouse.

Richard said, “Erin and Monica will be in later. Something about a shoe emergency. So meanwhile, let’s see about these sheds.”

They reviewed the instructions for the sheds. Bill and Richard renewed their argument, then eventually agreed to wait until the ground was set up and they were ready to build. Finally, they decided they could start work.

Matt moved the van back outside, through the delivery doors. Bill and Kevin unloaded a portal generator from the van and set up the truck gate inside the warehouse, while Richard and Matt went to prep the bobcat and the backhoe. As soon as they opened the truck gate, Richard drove the bobcat through and began flattening the area needed for two large sheds. Matt took the backhoe and started digging trenches for the walls, taking direction from Bill, who was laying out the location. Kevin, per standard operational procedures, stayed Earthside in case something went wrong with the gate.

Once they had laid the groundwork, they swapped the forklift attachment onto the bobcat. Matt began driving supplies through the gate, starting with the shed pallets. Bill and Richard started building the sheds.

They discovered, however, that the claim that the large sheds could be assembled by two people was barely true, and only if you had a lot of spare time. They drafted Matt and the bobcat to help with assembly. Using the forklift to raise sections sped up the work considerably. The men got into a routine, and before long they had one shed assembled and the second one laid out in preparation.

At this point, Richard called lunch break.

They shut down the equipment, stepped back Earthside, and Kevin turned off the gate.

With no pizza delivery on a Sunday afternoon, Matt and Bill drove out in Matt’s truck and did a pick-up order. Soon they were all sitting around the warehouse kitchen table, eating pizza and drinking beer.

“Can’t operate heavy machinery, now,” Bill said, holding up the beer.

Kevin snickered.

At that moment, Monica and Erin burst into the warehouse, out of breath. “Have you seen the news?” Erin exclaimed.

The men looked at each other in consternation, then at Erin. “No, what’s up?” Matt asked.

“Yellowstone. It’s become more active. Very much more active. It’s got more lava flows and almost constant tremblors. And there’ve been more hydrothermal explosions.”

“More what?” Matt replied. He reached over to the TV and turned it on. Monica, meanwhile, helped herself to some pizza.

“Lava flows,” Erin answered. “A lot of lava glooping out. Generally you can walk fast and stay in front of it. Yellowstone had an episode similar to this about 70,000 years ago. That’s where the lava came from that fills most of the Yellowstone caldera today.

“However, the hydrothermal explosions are an added bonus. That’s what’s getting people agitated.”

“Well that’s unfortunate for the park of course,” Bill answered. “But does it affect us?”

“Hmm, as it is, maybe some ash, maybe some smoke, maybe even a big earthquake or two. Small potatoes.

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