in a federal field jacket.
Another showed crates being loaded into a county truck.
The label on the crate read:
BH-9 BIO-LUMINESCENT MINERAL SAMPLE
NON-COMMERCIAL
FEDERAL HOLD
Lily leaned closer.
Bio-luminescent mineral.
That was impossible.
Minerals did not glow like living things.
Unless something living was mixed into them.
The next document made her stomach tighten.
TRANSFER NOTICE
1974
UNAUTHORIZED REMOVAL OF FEDERAL SAMPLE STOCKPILE
PERSONS OF INTEREST: CALDER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, HARLAN SUPPLY, PRIVATE INVESTORS
Below that was a handwritten note from an investigator:
Local officials claim landslide destroyed
