Burial Ground

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Special Thanks to Jeff Strand, Gene O'Neill, Leigh Haig, Bill Rasmussen, Ann Collette, Shane Staley, Brian Keene, my family, and all of my loyal readers, without whom none of this would be possible.

BURIAL GROUND

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

--- Aesop

Out of the dusk a shadow,

Then, a spark;

Out of the cloud a silence,

Then, a lark;

Out of the heart a rapture,

Then, a pain;

Out of the dead, cold ashes,

Life again.

--- John Banister Tabb

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

--- Jawaharlal Nehru

Prologue

Andes Mountains

Northern Peru

October 11th

9:26 p.m. PET

The screams were more than he could bear, but they didn't last long. Panicked cries cut short by wet, tearing sounds, and then finally silence, save the patter of raindrops on the muddy ground. From where he crouched in the dark recess of the stone fortification, hidden from the world by a screen of tangled lianas and the sheeting rain, he had listened to them die.

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