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SUNDAY—March 8
“Home sweet home.” Rhys said as he guided their Land Rover past
the Welcome to Nespodee Springs sign.
Elis couldn’t miss the sarcasm in his son’s tone. Well, the desert town of
Nespodee Springs was the antipode of a metropolis and didn’t offer much at
all in the way of culture or entertainment for a twenty-eight-year-old, but it
had served as a good home to the Pendry clan for generations.
Elis Pendry was looking at beginning his sixty-sixth year in a few
months, but keeping his weight down helped make him look younger. He
combed his longish hair—dark with some gray at the temples—straight
back. People often remarked on the resemblance between him and his son.
Rhys yawned. And then yawned again.
“Didn’t sleep well?” Elis said.
Rhys shrugged. “Not really. Not a fan of hotel beds, and this damn
Daylight Savings switch just adds to the problem. I didn’t need to lose an
extra hour of sleep and then have you waking me up at the crack of dawn.”
The clocks had sprung ahead an hour this morning. It had never bothered
Elis in his younger days, but now that he’d passed sixty, he felt it. Not that
he’d ever admit it.
“Never attend a morning meeting on an empty stomach,” he said.
“Except there was no meeting.”
“I’m quite well aware of that. I was there, remember? And I couldn’t
possibly know he wouldn’t show up until, well, until he didn’t show up.”
“Yeah, but the bottom line is: This whole trip was for nothing.”
“At least we had a nice dinner last night.”
The halibut with crab meat in the Gaslamp District’s Oceanaire Seafood
Room had been extraordinary.
“Okay, no argument there. And, frankly, I’m glad the meeting didn’t
happen. The whole setup stank of scam.”
Elis gave a sage nod. “Now that I’ve had time to think on it, I do believe
you’re right.”
But Elis had known that all along. After all, he’d designed the scam. But
not to buy a piece of lost Tesla technology from some mysterious crackpot
—also an Elis creation. No, the whole purpose had been to get them both
far out of town—to put a mountain range and a hundred-plus miles between
them and whatever befell the Duad last night.
Yesterday he’d given his foreman, Jeffrey “Karma” Kendrick, a hefty
down payment to arrange for her disappearance. How had he phrased it?
Oh, yes. He’d said he wanted her “whereabouts to become a mystery.”
Kendrick, a former enforcer for the Gargoyles biker gang, had understood.
It had all seemed rather abstract then. But now, as they approached the
town, as the white poles and spinning blades of Tadhak’s windfarm
appeared ahead, the reality of it came into sharp focus. He’d ordered
another person’s death…contracted for cold-blooded murder…he’d never
dreamed he’d have something like that on his conscience…
They passed the mobile home neighborhoods—where Kendrick lived—
and the solar array owned by the clan. And farther to the south, the struts
and trusses and gleaming domed crown of the clan’s Tesla tower jutted up
from the valley floor.
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