Keepsake by Dan Holt

Author:Dan Holt [Holt, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Max Holt Media
Published: 2016-04-24T23:00:00+00:00

Doctor Elizabeth Rainwater pushed the curtain aside and entered the examining room. The young doctor and nurse left. Brandon was talking with Audrina. He turned around to greet the doctor.

“You wanted to see me?” she said. Brandon glanced at Audrina. She nodded. Brandon nodded in agreement.

“Yes, Ms. Rainwater. Is there some place where we could talk?” Elizabeth searched Brandon and Audrina’s faces, paused a moment, then nodded.

“My office. Follow me.”

“Ms. Rainwater, this might be a little difficult to explain. A special device led us to your house…”

Elizabeth straightened up in her chair. “Did you arrive here in Roswell Wednesday just before noon?”

Brandon and Audrina looked at each other. “Yes, yes we did.”

“Oh my God!” Elizabeth said, “You have the Initiator!”

Brandon and Audrina looked at each other for a moment then Brandon reached into his pocket, pulled out the Keepsake, and held it up. “This?”

Elizabeth’s eyes widened. She reached and took the sphere and stared at it. “Where did you find it?”

Audrina turned to Brandon. “Go get the letter for Ms. Rainwater.”

Brandon stood. “Excuse me, I want to go to our car and get something that will explain what we are doing here.”

Elizabeth nodded. Brandon left the office. Elizabeth turned to Audrina.

“You fainted in the desert on the road to my house?” Audrina nodded.

“Did you hear a voice talking to you before you fainted?”

“Ah, Yes!” Audrina said. “I thought it was my husband talking to me.” Brandon stepped through the door into the office with the letter in his hand. He explained where and how he got the letter then handed it to Elizabeth. She unfolded it and read it, glanced up at Brandon and Audrina, then read it again. “We knew the Initiator was back in the area. The Locator started flashing just before noon Wednesday. It indicated that this would come close then go farther away, then close again, then out of range.”

“Locator? What’s the Locator?” Brandon said. Elizabeth paused and leaned back in her chair as if collecting herself. After a few moments she looked at Brandon and Audrina.

“I don’t know any other way to tell you this except straight out. One of the crewmembers of the spaceship that crashed in the Lincoln National Forest survived and is living at my house.”

Brandon and Audrina stared at Elizabeth for a moment. “Oh, my God!” Brandon said.

Audrina leaned forward. “Is it there, now?!”

“It’s a he, and yes, he’s there, now. His name is Orion. My father gave him that name when he found out where he’s from; the Orion star cluster.”

“I’m sorry,” Audrina said. Elizabeth smiled.

“Don’t worry about it. The first time I saw him, when I was twelve, that’s what I said. What is it? That was fifty years ago. We, my parents and I, were camping in the Lincoln National Forest on that July 4 weekend when his ship came down and crashed. We were a quarter of a mile from where it hit. We heard the storm and the big explosion north of us. We thought it was lightening hitting the ground or a tree or something.

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