Sands of Time [Novel] by Sean-David Morton

Author:Sean-David Morton
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER 58

The room was filled with sunlight when I snorted awake. I sat there in the chair for a minute or two dazed and confused trying to get my bearings. The room was simple but neat. It had a desk on one wall with a bookcase over it. The books ran from hard science on one end to wild sensationalistic pulp editions on the other to subjects about UFOs and the paranormal. On the desk were a few files and two telephones. Three chairs and one couch filled the rest of the little apartment. Finding the bathroom I showered and found a new razor and towels laid out, clearly for my use. After making myself presentable to the world I strolled out to see what today had to offer. A young white man in a jump suit stood at a discreet distance from the front door. He nodded a salutation and motioned to a waiting golf cart.

"Dr. Bellamy asked me to wait for you so you could join him for breakfast, sir. ”

I got in and we started up in the opposite direction of the main house. We broke out of the heavy foliage into an area where I could clearly see the azure blue water of the sea.

"Have you worked here long? ” I asked the other man.

" 'Bout two years. I re-enlisted when my last tour was done, to come back here. ” His accent was pure Scottish.

"Like the place then? ” I continued.

"Love the water. It’s warm and after I learned to scuba dive, I couldn’t see doing it in the Firth of Fourth I tell you that sir. ” He handed me a pair of sunglasses to help with the glare.

"Thanks. I left mine in my coat pocket. ” I put them on and took the opportunity to look back and up the hill at the villa. "How big is this place? ”

"Just over a hundred acres. The main housing facility is back there where you were, but the lab and computer center is over around the headlands where there is also a power generating station. ” The young man pulled up at the side of the narrow roadway and pointed. I could see a large building in the distance next to a small hill. They were just on the other side of a secondary fence line. "This road is the one of two ways down there. But I wouldn’t advise a gentle stroll across the grass area, even though it looks inviting. ”

"Snakes? ” My first instinct in tropical areas was always to worry about what you couldn’t see at feet level.

"Landmines, sir. Anti-personnel. The whole place is packed up with them. Set one off and three others right around them go off to make sure that the first one did the job right well. ” The man started up the cart again.

"Must be hell on the native animals. ” I looked out across the sea grass that was brown and swaying in the gentle wind.

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