Accidental Surrogate for Alpha
I ask, looking around at the trees on every side.
“Here,” he says, and nods to the driver, who presses a button on the ceiling of the car, one of the buttons usually reserved for a garage door opener. And then my mouth drops open as, in front of us, the earth just…opens, sliding upwards like the jaws of some great creature and revealing beneath it a metal tunnel filled with orange light.
“Oh my god,” I murmur, my eyes going wide as I stare into it. “That is so creepy.”
“It’s cool,” Sinclair corrects, shooting me a little smirk.