Skinwalker: Tsegi Ruins, Ch4

Tal explained what happened.

“After picking up Pelipa in Kayenta, we were on our way to Tuba City, and I was driving through Tsegi Territory. It was a warm evening, about umm, 10:00 p.m. We had the windows down. It was a moonless night on this stretch of road, so pitch black we could only see a few feet beyond the headlights.”

“God dammit, that’s the way it was with me. Maybe it’s always like that, Tal.”

Tal nodded. “It was so dark I closed my eyes to get relief from the fathomless blackness.”

René sat down and added to the story. “We had been driving for more than an hour with Tal at the wheel. Pelipa was quiet, and I was trying to take a nap, which was difficult. All three of us were sharing the bench seat in the truck.”

“Wait a minute, René. Tsegi is only a half hour from Kayenta,” Katie said.

“Well, I lost track of time, maybe it wasn’t an hour.”

“Or maybe it was. I lost time on that road too, at least three hours.” Katie shuddered, remembering her ordeal with the skinwalkers.

“Oh, we had Crowbear with us too.”

“

In the truck cab?”

“No, he was in the back on the bed, hitching a ride to Tuba City.”