Fashioned mainly from adobe bricks and framed with wood. Everything about it looked archaic and open; from the mazelike floor plan to the easy access of the front rooms. Those rooms had proven how easily a man with a gun could breach them. And he hadn’t even tried the overly large windows beneath a wide porch, shuttered when needed. All of it was perfect camouflage for the survivalist retreat accessed through the kitchens somewhere. Nothing about the hacienda betrayed the building’s real function, nor was it obvious from the bedrooms at the back. Those were built for defense, manufactured of reinforced concrete covered with adobe façade. There were false shutters mounted along the walls portraying windows, while the real window openings were slits along the top frame. Narrow horizontal slits, two inches by fifteen, they let in air, very little light, and zero perpetrators. They were also perfect for picking off bad guys with a rifle. The place was excellent ground zero should a survivalist situation actually occur.
