Roswell

Using Gabriel’s Golden Gift and har own in tandem, Rebekah sabotaged the saucer in such a way that it was unrecognizable as a viable aircraft. When she was done it was just a pile of sheet metal and glass and upholstered seats baking in the desert, with an injured jen baking inside.

There was still a little bit of water left over. Gabriel decided the water was a much more important thing to duplicate than the Silver Gift. Che did his standard trick to produce enough to fill two canteens for Rebekah, then put the rest in the little hidden fold-space pocket for hemself. Rebekah also took along a bag of trail mix to eat, and kissed Gabriel goodbye.

It took her two days to walk the thirty miles west and a little south to the town of Roswell. When sha was halfway to town sha found a small burrow pit in a ravine that was blessedly free of rattlesnakes. There sha sheltered for the night and contacted Dory to tell har about the accident. It took her that long to concoct a story to tell her.

Dory wired money to her from Hunky-Dory’s slush fund. Then from the town of Roswell, which, much like Headwater, was the only outpost of civilization for many miles around, Rebekah returned to Franklin by bus. The trip took another three days with all the required bus transfers.

Cowboys found the wreckage in the desert while Rebekah was still on foot. They rendered what first aid they could and took Gabriel to a small hospital in Roswell. The doctor managed to save Gabriel’s leg but che was laid up in traction and, as che originally guessed, che could make no move to escape.

At the same time the 509th Bomb Group retrieved the saucer from the rancher’s land and craned it onto a truck, but they saw it was just a pile of junk and there was nothing they could learn from it. There was no motor and no controls. It looked like a playground flying saucer made to entertain some children. Yet the pilots swore they shot it out of the sky. The .50 cal round that had done Gabriel’s leg was still inside the thing to support their claim.

For hez part Gabriel refused to explain to the doctor and the local sheriff how the saucer or che came to be out there on that desert ranch. And there was the issue of his horns and the bone cup that emerged from the back of hez head, which of course was soon to attract the attention of Clyde Tolson and make this another DECON case.

In the saloons, cowhands mentioned the “silver disk” they found and soon after that some reporters from Albequerque came calling.