According to mining engineer G. Warren Shufelt, Los Angeles sits above a lost city filled with golden treasures and mysterious inventions left by a race of Lizard People with intellects far in advance of our own. Shufelt says he found records of this reptile race in the ancient legends of the Hopi Indians, and is presently raising funds to drive a shaft 250 feet under the ground beneath Downtown. —Los Angeles Daily Tribune, January 29, 1934 Zach kept looking through the back window as they drove away. “We’re just going to leave them there?” “Yes.” Zach watched them through the back window until Cade turned down another street. “Yeah, I suppose they can call DHS for a tow truck.” “They weren’t from Homeland Security,” Cade said. “How do you know? Were the badges fake?” “Not the badges. The names. There are no employees of DHS named Helen Holt or Augusto Reyes.” “How can you be so sure? You know the name of every Homeland Security employee?” Cade didn’t respond.
