Chapter Forty-five
Friday, October 24
7:46 AM
Dreamland
The Dreamland facility changed, moved … opened.
With a loud shuddering noise in the eerie desert stillness, the great metal doors along the near side of Delta Hangar groaned apart. Generators hummed, and heavy machinery activated with a clamor like an assembly line—but no human figures showed themselves.
But even with its doors yawning wide, Dreamland gave up none of its secrets. The cavernous interior of the building remained dark, like a dragon’s lair. The desert seemed to hold its breath, waiting.
Suddenly, banks of interior lights gleamed on, stabbing through the shadows like yellow eyes hidden in the shadows. External spotlights blasted down from automated guard portals around the razor-wire fence, glaring on the sand; the
