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Hiawatha National Forest
October 23rd 2032
Lewis Meriwether had pulled Bravo team back to the rock quarry and had the three men form a loose semi-circle in front of the abandoned pit. His pale blue eyes studied the razor thin LED Light Tablet displaying the military grade, satellite-generated, grid map of the Hiawatha National Forest. He pressed an icon and the image narrowed to an area ten miles square around the quarry. Twenty large dots of green light blazed on the screen. All slowly converging toward the quarry and the unusual wooden, tepee-like structure. They milled about, suddenly disappearing from the screen, then reappearing just as abruptly, perhaps new ones, coming to life.
Four more of the creatures had congregated together and were moving very close to the structure. He
