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It was an electronic ie of a firefly
"What the holy mother ofthe fireflies" I shook my head "What are thosewhat does that mean?"
Jett flashed me a curious look "Have you seen that before?"
"Yes I mean, maybe not this one exactly, but ones like it My dad had all these picture of fireflies at his place"
He nodded "That makes sense Your dad would probably know"
"Knohat?"
"About the fireflies, and what they represent"
"And that is what exactly?" I asked, blowing a strand of hair out of hed atyou’re new to all this" He sat down at one of the computer workstations and twisted his chair back and forth, like a restless schoolkid "There have been stories of UFO sightings that date back hundreds--maybe thousands--of years, but it wasn’t until the 1950s, when there was this Brazilian faruy named Antonio Vilas-Boas--who claimed he’d been taken on board one of those alien spaceships and ordered to iled his eyebrohen he said the word i as he looked--"this hot ‘humanoid’ When he was returned, he was in pretty bad shape, like they’d beaten the crap out of hih authorities claimed they didn’t buy his story, it caused a flood of other people to start reporting that they’d been abducted too The thing is, sos that didn’t get reported to the general public" He leaned back while he continued to twirl in his chair "Wanna guess what those things ht be?"
I raised my eyebrows, pretty sure the ansasn’t rocket science or anything "I’o! And not just a firefly here or there According to those ‘abducted,’ for lack of a better word, or witnesses, there were always lots of them--swar to do with the taken?"
"Oh, they have soht We’re sure of it And so were the govern the activity at the time It wasn’t the No-Suchers" He paused to clarify, unaware that I’d already heard the ter back then Ru World War Two to cover up a UFO sighting in England, President Eisenhower had these covert s with the aliens to forge a treaty with theency to look into these so-called ‘abductions’ as well"
"This sounds like the kind of crazy conspiracy stuffsole it, but from what I know about your dad, he’s not all that crazy There’s some truth to this At least part of it I don’t know s or about as really behind this new agency that was for to be returned, and of witnesses stating that they’d seen huge gatherings of fireflies around the time those people had been taken Once it was proved that the Returned had the ability to heal, a plan was devised" He winced "A really terrible plan, soot the job done"
Cocking my head, I took a step closer, almost afraid to ask "What did they do?"
Jett pulled up his sleeve and showed ainst us They tracked us down and captured us They questioned us, and if we didn’t ad one of these so-called Returned, then they would use this thing that looked kind of like a car cigarette lighter, but it was more like a brand, really It had a syed, as if it wasn’t a co "Since they couldn’t risk exposing the us, they used it to sear our skin instead To test us"
I frowned as I leaned closer, trying to figure out what I wasthere," I stated sole so vile to another person--human or not
His voice lowered He was quiet, so quiet, when he answered, "That’s how they knew If you healed, you’d been returned"
I closedfor a very, very long time Finally, when I trusted myself not to throhen I opened my mouth, I whispered, "I’m sorry"
Jett looked up at reen or shades of gold It was like staring into cut glass
Or into the iridescent wings of a firefly
"It was a long tio," he recalled with a faraway look in those mosaic eyes of his
"This is what it looked like," he said, pointing to the golden-beetle iency back in WW Two--I’uys who are after you now are a part of the NSA, at least indirectly They’re an offshoot agency that operates under the radar of the rest of the organization The government doesn’t sanction what they do, and if the public ever discovered their true purpose, it would be denied They’re kinda the Area 51 of agencies Officially, they don’t existexcept that they totally do"