Chapter 29
Shannon heard that first great shock of thunder, not distant like the ones earlier, but directly overhead. The storm had officially begun and Shannon was glad they were under cover, even if it was with this strange, wild man.
Whey were somewhere under Riverside’s industrial park, in the heart of an old network of tunnels and culverts. The man, Dave, had explained on their trip through the pipe how it was used to help control flooding before the Army Corp of Engineers built the dam up river.
“It was before my time, but from what I understand it didn’t work very well anyway. They built it to take excess flow and rout it underground to the other end of this little peninsula.”
They were inside a raised concrete recess just off the main waterway, probably meant for a long-out-
