CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Kevin kept his eyes on the truck that held the capsule all the way back to Bogota. He felt almost like, if he took his eyes off it for a moment, one of the different groups that had spent so much time arguing over it would try to take it.
“It’s not going to disappear,” Ted said. “You did a good job convincing everyone to work together on this, Kevin.”
Kevin wanted to believe it, but the capsule had almost come out of nowhere, hadn’t it? Why wouldn’t it find a way to disappear the same way? Why wouldn’t they be left staring at an empty space, just as they hoped for all the secrets that the aliens had prepared for them?
“It will be okay, Kevin,” his mother said, putting a hand on his shoulder. “You’ve already done the hard part.”
Kevin understood that, but even so, he wa
