We spend Saturday practicing and planning. That's a bit of a problem, because when Sunday actually rolls around, we realize we should have figured out something else.
"Where the fuck is Engineer Hill?" Sue asks.
I stop. "Oh, shit."
"Are you serious right now?" Ball Buster, says, nearly exploding.
"I haven't had a lot of time, okay?" I tug a bit on my amulet—the one Doc Schaefer gave me. I guess I'm hoping it brings me luck. "Between planning things out, and all the tae kwon do. Why'd we need to learn tae kwon do at the last minute, anyway?"
"Because they've never taught it here, so Jackhammer and his cronies won't know it," says Dolphin. "Unless one of them's been to the same dojo as Sue."
"Won't matter if we can't find them," Ball Buster says.
"Chill, man." I raise my hand. "Doc's got that map in his little museum, right? It's probably marked on there."
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When we get to the little house by the airstrip, the door's locked. Ball Buster simply gives it a hard shove, splintering the door apart.
"Yiiiiiiii!" There's a scrambling noise, and some stuff falls over with a metallic clang. "Who's there? You can't come in! Don't come in!" It's a female voice.
"Sounds like someone's home," Dolphin says, chuckling.
"Moron," I hiss at Ball Buster. "Hello?" I call inside. "Sorry. Didn't mean to ... uh ... barge in. We ... uh ..." I look at the others, who just shrug. "We're looking for a map?"
"You're ... what?" A girl peeks from around the corner of a cabinet. She seems confused. "Don't you have one? They should have ... oh, you're neffs!" she realizes, coming a little bit out from the cabinet. She's wearing a brown parka, which is a kind I haven't seen before. She's not one of the campers.
"We just need to take a quick look at the island model he's set up," Ball Buster says.
"Um ..." The girl looks back in the house, and we instantly see the problem: it looks like Ball Buster's break-and-entry knocked the model onto the floor. It's shattered into a thousand pieces.
"Well, shit," says Sue.
"Wh-what did you guys need to find?" asks the girl.
"Why do you ask?" Ball Buster says, his voice heavy with suspicion.
"I could just take you there."
"Really? Do you know where Engineer Hill is?" I ask.
"Of course!" She brightens. "It's literally just over that hill there. Let me just grab my snowshoes." The three of us exchange bewildered looks, while she fumbles with the backpack next to the door. "Hey! Is it true what they say about you guys being able to fly?"
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The girl leads us far out on the island, asking questions all the way about what we can do, who we are, what we did before we came here, and other topics of interest. She's small but not really young. Probably not much younger than we are. She helps out Doc with his museum and other odd jobs, but mainly she works for "Eddie."
"Eddie?" I ask.
"You know. Eddie. On base. He gets stuff for people."
"You saying he's like a fence?" Sue asks.
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The Nephilim Protocol
Paranormal"Far, far out from the coast of Alaska, at the very end of the world, tiny Attu Island crops out of the ocean, surrounded by hundreds of miles of freezing water. This is where the UN imprisons Nephilim, half-angel hybrids of stupendous power who onc...
