Grim Find - Quantum Fold Chapter 5/3
At first light, the girls readied themselves to investigate the mound—the one the campers had fled from in panic.
Kayla extended her hand. “Coordinates are set in my VDD. Take my hand and we jump. If anything feels off, you jump back to the shelter. No hesitation. I’ll be right behind you.”
With a feeling of displacement, they landed on a narrow trail leading toward the rise. Fresh tire tracks carved into the dirt, still crisp. Possibly left by the campers two nights prior.
The mound loomed roughly five hundred feet above the surrounding terrain. Its crown spread flat, cloaked in wind-worn shrubs and patchy grass. Gear lay scattered across the surface—a chaotic mess of overturned tents, shattered tools, and gear.
No claw marks. No reptilian prints. Just human footprints
.
“Maybe the waitress was right. Those guys were drunk and imagined the whole thing,” Adrienne murmured.
Kayla frowned. “They didn’t hallucinate all this torn gear and smashed equipment.”
Off to one side, the remains of a second campfire, distant from the first. “They wouldn’t have built another fire way over here,” Adrienne said.
They swept the area methodically. Charred logs. Scorched earth. No question—it had seen use more than once.
Adrienne paused, a wrinkle forming across her brow.
“Kayla, come here. There’s a breeze coming from this opening in the ground… and it reeks.”
Kayla crouched, inspecting the jagged opening. “Might be an air shaft. Looks so natural, but maybe.”
From her pack she produced a compact optical device, shaped like binoculars but without lenses on the front. She slowly scanned the area. “Nothing,” she said, her voice edged in frustration.
“What’s it supposed to pick up?” Adrienne asked.
“Anything they’ve hidden using their cloaking technology like entrances to passageways, structures or the reptilians themselves.”
Adrienne stepped toward a knot of shrubs and paused. Something caught her eye. She knelt and brushed back the sand.
“Kayla... bones. Human bones.”
Kayla rushed over. A skull, half-sunken in soil, stared skyward with empty sockets. And all around dozens more.
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Grim Find - Quantum Fold Chapter 5/3
At first light, the girls readied themselves to investigate the mound—the one the campers had fled from in panic.
Kayla extended her hand. “Coordinates are set in my VDD. Take my hand and we jump. If anything feels off, you jump back to the shelter. No hesitation. I’ll be right behind you.”
With a feeling of displacement, they landed on a narrow trail leading toward the rise. Fresh tire tracks carved into the dirt, still crisp. Possibly left by the campers two nights prior.
The mound loomed roughly five hundred feet above the surrounding terrain. Its crown spread flat, cloaked in wind-worn shrubs and patchy grass. Gear lay scattered across the surface—a chaotic mess of overturned tents, shattered tools, and gear.
No claw marks. No reptilian prints. Just human footprints
.
“Maybe the waitress was right. Those guys were drunk and imagined the whole thing,” Adrienne murmured.
Kayla frowned. “They didn’t hallucinate all this torn gear and smashed equipment.”
Off to one side, the remains of a second campfire, distant from the first. “They wouldn’t have built another fire way over here,” Adrienne said.
They swept the area methodically. Charred logs. Scorched earth. No question—it had seen use more than once.
Adrienne paused, a wrinkle forming across her brow.
“Kayla, come here. There’s a breeze coming from this opening in the ground… and it reeks.”
Kayla crouched, inspecting the jagged opening. “Might be an air shaft. Looks so natural, but maybe.”
From her pack she produced a compact optical device, shaped like binoculars but without lenses on the front. She slowly scanned the area. “Nothing,” she said, her voice edged in frustration.
“What’s it supposed to pick up?” Adrienne asked.
“Anything they’ve hidden using their cloaking technology like entrances to passageways, structures or the reptilians themselves.”
Adrienne stepped toward a knot of shrubs and paused. Something caught her eye. She knelt and brushed back the sand.
“Kayla... bones. Human bones.”
Kayla rushed over. A skull, half-sunken in soil, stared skyward with empty sockets. And all around dozens more.
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