Secrets in Time by Monique Martin

Author:Monique Martin [Martin, Monique]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Monique Martin

Elizabeth turned the car radio dial, trying find something upbeat. There weren’t a lot of choices out in the New Mexico desert. She spun the knob, sending the little needle from one end of the dial to the other.

“Elizabeth, please,” Simon said.

“Sorry.” She settled on a station playing some older big band music but kept the volume low.

She was feeling fidgety, excited, worried. It wasn’t that she expected to meet aliens tonight, but it was possible. She’d met vampires and ghosts and quite possibly the devil himself, so was it that much of a stretch to think aliens might be real too?

They’d always fascinated her but in a more abstract “what if …?” kind of way. It seemed the height of hubris to think the humans of earth were the only beings alive in an infinite universe. They had to be out there, somewhere. She felt certain about that. But the question of the day was: Were they here?

That she was less certain about. It was fun to wonder, and she had seen every episode of every Star Trek series ever produced, which made her an expert of sorts, she supposed, but now that she was here, in Roswell, on her way to the crash site, a kaleidoscope of butterflies swarmed inside her stomach.

She didn’t really believe aliens had crashed here. Did she?

Part of her wanted to believe it. It was fantastical, and it would change the way every human felt about the universe and their place in it. But it was also terrifying. There’s the unknown and then there’s the Unknown, and this was the headliner at that Lollapalooza.

She and Jack had spent countless hours enjoying schlocky TV shows about alien autopsies and stories of abductions, but they’d been entertainment, no more real than Orcs. Now that she was here, in Roswell, driving toward the incident, her certainty about how silly all the stories were faltered. More often than not there was a kernel of truth behind a legend, some bit of history that was amplified and aggrandized through the years. What if that kernel was that this really was a UFO crash? Maybe it wouldn’t play out like Arrival or The Day the Earth Stood Still. She’d much rather it be like E.T. or Cocoon—sweet aliens who just wanted Reese’s Pieces or a nice dip in the pool. But somehow she doubted Wilford Brimley was an accurate representation of alien life, mustache notwithstanding. What if whatever crashed tonight really was something from outer space? Was she ready to accept what that meant?

If she was honest with herself, no. Not really. It was almost too great a sea change to fully comprehend. Angels and vampires were one thing, but aliens? That changed everything.

“Are you all right?” Simon asked.

She snapped herself out of her thoughts. “Just having a teeny tiny existential crisis.”

Simon arched an eyebrow.

“What if it really is aliens?” she asked, her voice feeling and sounding a little small.

“I thought you wanted it to be.”

“I thought so too, but now … I don’t know.

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