10
Into the Light
“Let’s start from the beginning. Are we sure Kyle is missing?” Jana said.
“You know him, Jana. He’s like a machine the way he works. Kyle communicated on a daily schedule. It’s been four days. He’s gone dark. We don’t have anything other than that.”
“Same time every day?”
“No, he uses a cypher to calculate the appropriate time to communicate each day. It was always different.”
“And how long has he been down here?” Jana said.
“Six months.”
“He’s been down here six months? Christ. And he’s been checking up on me that whole time?”
“I told you,” Cade said. “He’s worried about you.”
“And he didn’t stop once to say hello?”
“He knew you needed your space. And remember, officially he’s down here for work, not to check up on you. But, he had influence on being assigned
