The Breaking Point: a Body Farm Novel
“Buoyed by the prior afternoon’s discovery of a tooth, I’d assumed the rest of the remains would emerge immediately.
I’d assumed wrong. After an hour of searching and sifting, we were still empty-handed. Had the force of the impact somehow caused one of the teeth to ricochet away from the others? Or had a single tooth been planted in the wreckage, as a red-herring hoax? If so, by whom, and for what purpose?
By late morning, we’d sent up four loads of debris without having found any more teeth or... bones, and my mood had gone from buoyant to discouraged to downright mad. So when a tangle of metal tubing resisted my efforts to remove it from the wreckage, I gave a furious tug. Suddenly, unexpectedly, it came free and I toppled backward, my arms windmilling for balance. Catapulted by my flailing, a lumpy object—it looked like a charred chunk of driftwood pulled from a riverbank campfire—arched into the air, tumbling end over end. Blackened and broken though it was, I recognized it at once.MoreLess
I’d assumed wrong. After an hour of searching and sifting, we were still empty-handed. Had the force of the impact somehow caused one of the teeth to ricochet away from the others? Or had a single tooth been planted in the wreckage, as a red-herring hoax? If so, by whom, and for what purpose?
By late morning, we’d sent up four loads of debris without having found any more teeth or... bones, and my mood had gone from buoyant to discouraged to downright mad. So when a tangle of metal tubing resisted my efforts to remove it from the wreckage, I gave a furious tug. Suddenly, unexpectedly, it came free and I toppled backward, my arms windmilling for balance. Catapulted by my flailing, a lumpy object—it looked like a charred chunk of driftwood pulled from a riverbank campfire—arched into the air, tumbling end over end. Blackened and broken though it was, I recognized it at once.MoreLess
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