Selene
Copyright© 2022 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 30
Daddy looked like he’d just found the Holy Grail. He became ‘extremely’ careful of the boulder with the spread chips. His highpowered military flashlight came up and he said he was going to use it.
He carried it in his shirt-pocket protector pouch along with his pens, pencils and old fashioned slide-rule. After the first time, ever since he bought it he was always careful to announce that he was ‘going to light up the night’ with his 300000 LM XHP90.2 Most Powerful LED Flashlight USB Rechargeable LED Torch Hand Lamp 18650 Tactical Flashlight.
After the first time he hit the switch and I couldn’t see anything but the spots one used to get when some damn reporter fired off one of those Zirconium flashbulbs they used to use, I learned to close my eyes AND look away. That damn flashlight would produce those spots right through my eye lids.
“Selene? Did you bring your digital?”
“Always, Daddy.” I produced.
“Without disturbing any chips ... take several pictures of the whole area.”
I did.
“Without going behind the boulder, get a video movie of the impression in the sand between the cave wall and the boulder.
He shined that damn light on the sand and the tanned deer hide where the knapper had sat. Properly lighted ... and that damn flashlight did the job ... I could see where the chips had fallen around his legs. There is only one way to get that shape ... yoga style.
“Let’s go,” daddy said.
Alarmed, I asked, “Daddy ... what are you going to do?”
“I’m going to call the expert ... you are going to confess your part in this mess.”
“Confess? Confess what mess?”
“You moved the point.”
“Ooo ... I did, didn’t I.” Statement of bald facts ... not a question.
“Bring it with ... you moved it and it has lost it’s locational provenience ... to wit ... the boulder. We know it’s generalized provenience ... cave on the banks of the Colorado.”
“Ooo.”
“Yeah.”
“About calling.”
“Yes?”
“Are you sure you want our peace and tranquility disturbed for a piece of rock?”
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