The Complete Short Fiction (2014, Jerry eBooks) by Matthew Reilly

Author:Matthew Reilly [Reilly, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jerry eBooks
Published: 2014-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

DEPARTURE

The hangar complex was now deserted.

It had been three hours since Chase and Kenny had arrived and Breslin’s corporate jet had long since departed. The medics and the wounded men in the infirmary were also gone.

Chase and Kenny emerged from the hangar into brilliant desert sunshine. The complex around them looked old and decrepit—deliberately made to look disused.

The dull-brown Nevada landscape stretched away from them in every direction.

They walked for several miles down a pitted dirt road until they came to a gate. Beyond that they found a highway where they thumbed a ride.

As she sat in the back of a pick-up truck, swaying with every jolt, Chase reflected on the past few hours.

The tablets—the booby traps—the subterranean pyramid—the Visitor’s Stone—and of course, the rampaging hairy creatures.

She snuffed a laugh.

The creatures. How had they survived for so long inside the subterranean pyramid?

Haynes and Breslin had never known, just as they would never know if the Visitor’s Stone could do all it was claimed.

But Chase knew.

Because of what she had seen during her brief glimpse of the interior of the pyramid, when she had seen the Stone on its pedestal.

For in that moment, she had also seen something else.

She’d seen a trickle of condensation dripping down from the ceiling of the dark stone room, a steady drip-drip that had been landing right on the Visitor’s Stone and which had formed a puddle on the floor around its pedestal.

A puddle that any animal would drink from.

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