Second Wave

Cade untersucht gerade Berichte über eine UFO-Sichtung, als plötzlich die Gua angreifen. Für ihn ist dies ein Zeichen, dass die zweite Welle, die Invasion der Erde, begonnen hat. Gemeinsam mit einigen Bürgern der kleinen Stadt wird Cade in einem Keller gefangen gehalten. Er berichtet ihnen alles, was er über die Aliens weiß. Unter den Gefangenen macht sich Misstrauen breit.

Quatrain 34, Century 2. "A vision of destruction appears near the throne / And the struggle to reign supreme begins / An approaching storm unchecked / To test the mettle of all men." The Paranoid Times Web site is set up to warn people of imminent danger we face from the alien race that has infiltrated this planet. People are starting to take notice. One e-mail came from a Sheldon Lamott, who said he had pictures of a UFO floating above Columbia, Maryland, just 20 miles outside Washington, DC. I was skeptical the photos were legit & in my experience, spaceships weren't the Gua's style. But this seemed to relate to a quatrain Eddie found, so I checked it out. Met Sheldon and his wife Pauline at their suburban home. I figured out what the tension was between Sheldon and his wife when Sheldon showed me his UFO pix in the basement darkroom. There were other photos & not of UFOs, but of Pauline's tryst with their neighbour, Boyd Hackett.