Chapter 35: Reider Pays Up
September 13, 20—
9:09 A.M.
Talon Park
I met the bookie, Steven Reider, at the Chuck Chutney statue in Talon Park to collect on my lock, which was “easy winner” in betting speak.
The park was built in 1947 by the Talon Family. Rudyard and Samantha were mega-wealthy coal mine owners. Their total net worth was well over four hundred million dollars. Prior to them buying the property in 1946, the Talon Rehabilitation Institute stood on the property, which consisted of three buildings and housed over three hundred psychologically damaged patients. Because the institute went bankrupt in 1945 from WWII, Rudyard and Samantha bulldozed half it over. The remaining half was buried under tons of clean earth and Talon Park was built thereafter. Some Vanmer residents bel
