It had been a minor miracle they’d been able to stave off the blitz of reporters until now. The Southwest Tribal Foundation, or more like River’s boss, Emilio Matias, believed it best to deal with the event head on. Because of that, he’d called a press conference for bright and early Monday morning and left it to River to handle the local television reporters. They advanced on the site out of Santa Cruz, and as far away as San Francisco and Los Angeles. They fired questions at the project leader, intending to put River on the hot seat. There was always one in the crowd, some persistent journalist like a dog with a bone, who wouldn’t let go of an issue, determined to hog the Q & A session. Today, a perky blonde out of Santa Cruz who identified herself as Tamara Davis just wouldn’t shut up. “How do you respond to those people who say you and your crew are nothing more than tomb raiders?” “I’d remind them that this site was not officially a tomb, none that we knew of anyway.
