Mike shakes his head.
"I don't know about any base," he says. "My father always said he was put here just in case anyone was on vacation when the Feds hit the town. But he always said it as a joke. You know, cultists going to Florida to enjoy the beach?"
Clarissa looks up, interested.
"The government wiped out the town?" She nods. "That would explain a lot. The town's disappearance didn't follow any of the typical patterns of normal small town withering away.
She gets out a notebook from her backpack and starts to write.
