Silent Creed

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Authors: Alex Kava
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away from his skin. He knew the tape wouldn’t necessarily keep his feet dry, but it would discourage snakes and other insects from climbing up his legs.
    He strapped on his helmet, a ballistic shell that sat just above his ears. It was similar to the helmets Vance’s crew wore, only Creed’s didn’t include a communication headset inside. He chose to leave his gloves in his rain jacket pocket. In the other pocket he stuffed a knotted rope toy and zippered it in while Bolo’s eyes grew wide and his tail wagged. Most of Creed’s dogs were trained with toy rewards. Food was never used. Too many things could go wrong with food rewards. Last, he tugged on a small backpack with other items he or Bolo might need along their search. This particular pack had a one-snap release in case he got caught up in debris and needed to wrestle free.
    Ready, he turned back to Vance. Something just occurred to him and he asked, “How did you know I was coming?”
    “What do you mean?”
    “Ms. Klein wasn’t on the admission list but you sounded like you were expecting me. Even knew I was a marine.”
    “One of the guys told me early this morning.” He scratched at the thick mass of gray hair under his hard hat.
    Creed shrugged it off. It probably didn’t matter. Instead he asked, “What about the DoD’s facility?”
    “Don’t know much about it. It’s secluded on federal property. Classified crap. Nobody around here can even tell me what the facility was for, let alone how many people worked there. I’d say it’s about an acre northeast of these homes.”
    “You think it was affected?”
    “Oh yeah. That’s probably gone. But that late at night, I’m hoping there wasn’t anyone in there. We don’t even have it on our unaccounted-for list because nobody’ll give us any information.”
    “My biggest challenge is the scent area for my dog,” Creed told him. “He’ll be confined to this area, but the scent could stretch all along the slide or at least as far as it’s been dragged. Where Bolo ends up alerting could be a part of the field, but it might not be exactly where the victim is.”
    “No matter how far off he is, I’ve got to think he’ll still be saving us time.”
    “There is one other thing,” Creed said. “From what you’ve described, this slide was powerful.”
    “And fast. Never seen one like this before. We get our share in these parts but rarely one like this.”
    “I have to warn you. There’s a good chance the houses aren’t the only things that have been ripped apart.”

8.
    Washington, D.C.
    S enator Ellie Delanor stared at the stack of files on her desk. In the corner of her office were a half-dozen boxes with more. Senator Quincy, who was heading the congressional hearing, had sent them over just that morning.
    Her chief of staff stood in the doorway. The note he had handed her was supposed to prepare her for this.
    “Was there some mistake?” she asked Carter.
    She knew the answer but still hoped he could explain the delay as a simple mix-up. She didn’t want to believe that her colleague—the four-term senior senator from Illinois who had allowed her to be on the committee—would sabotage her before the hearings even began. But considering what she had put up with in the past, she shouldn’t even be surprised. The Senate was still a good ole boys’ club. She’d been warned. She already knew she would be the token woman for the camera crews at the hearings. Wasn’t this just another way of reminding her of her place?
    “They said that the DoD only just released them,” Carter told her, pointing to the boxes. The stack on her desk had been delivered yesterday morning.
    She met his eyes, looking for any hint of whether he believed it. Sad, but these days she found herself relying on a twenty-eight-year-old glorified clerk as her bullshit monitor. That’s what happens when you discover your ex-husband has lied for most of your thirteen years of marriage. You don’t know who to

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