A Dark World: The Complete SpaceMan Chronicles (Books 1-3) by Tom Abrahams

Author:Tom Abrahams [Abrahams, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Piton Press LLC
Published: 2018-02-01T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2020, 9:06 PM MST

DENVER, COLORADO

Until now, Vihaan Chandra had never noticed the words on the gray granite dedication stone inside Denver International Airport’s Jeppesen terminal. As he and the growing gathering of others awaited permission to descend another level and board the airport’s terminal train, he’d studied the precise language. It gave him chills.

The capstone was dedicated on March 19, 1994, nearly twenty-six years earlier. Chandra was a teenager at the time and didn’t live in Colorado, so he wouldn’t have remembered the ceremony. He envisioned what it was like, with countless dignitaries and members of the design team all congratulating themselves on the wonderfully overpriced transportation hub. The mayor of Denver, Wellington Webb, Governor Roy Romer, and the Secretary of Transportation Federico Peña all had their names inscribed in the stone. Chandra crouched down and ran his fingers across the etched lettering and the promise of a time capsule buried underneath.

THE TIME CAPSULE BENEATH THIS STONE CONTAINS MESSAGES AND MEMORABILIA TO THE PEOPLE OF COLORADO IN 2094.

There was nothing odd about a time capsule, and nothing strange about a plan to unearth it a century later. What was odd, however, was the symbol at the center of the stone, beneath the time capsule paragraph. It was a large G set between a compass and a ruler. It was the symbol of the Freemasons, a secret organization that, on the surface, was an order of men established to help society, but was also long believed to have its shadowy reach extend deep into the halls of power from the earliest days of American government. Their influence was legendary. More bothersome, however, was the recognition of the contributions of another group: the New World Airport Commission.

“New World?” Chandra whispered to himself as he ran his fingers across the letters. “As in New World Order?”

He thought about what Treadgold had mentioned hours earlier, that the Descent Protocol was an excuse and not a reason.

An excuse for what? A New World Order?

Chandra stood from the plaque and backed away. He wove his way through the crowd mindlessly, leaving his group behind, until he spotted an unusual painting on the terminal wall. It wasn’t new to him. He’d passed by the mural-sized artwork countless times, but like the capstone, he’d never taken the time to give it attention.

It was titled In Peace and Harmony With Nature and at first blush was a brightly colored celebration of children and animals interacting with one another. When viewed alongside its companion pieces, however, it took on a much more sinister interpretation.

Together, the three pieces, painted by artist Leo Tanguma, offered a fiery glimpse into an apocalyptic future rife with bio warfare, armed Nazi-esque soldiers, and reminders of the Holocaust. Chandra felt as though his eyes were open for the first time, as if a veil was lifted and he was seeing clearly the clues hidden in plain sight.

He stumbled back through the crowd and found his way to Treadgold. His boss was talking with the security specialist Bert Martin.

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