文档介绍：Ringo, John & Co. - Legacy of the Aldenata 04 - Hells
Hell's Faire
John Ringo
Prologue
Monsignor Nathan O'Reilly, ., had to admit that there were good and bad aspects to being a consultant to the
President of the United States. One excellent aspect was that his access to what limited intelligence the President
possessed about humanity's "benefactors" had been tremendously increased. Much of it had already been
available to the Bane Sidhe, presumably through ration of works. But it was useful to
the Société to be able to both support their ancient "allies" and, admittedly, ensure that they were not being
given the run around.
The negative aspect, of course, was that semi-professional paranoiacs and conspiracy True Believers assumed
that a Jesuit as a counselor to the President meant some deeply laid conspiracy involving pyramids, Atlantis,
aliens and lore of the ancients. The professional paranoiacs and security officers of the FBI, CIA, NSA, and other
agencies knew that there were no ancient conspiracies. Any who insisted that Monsignor Nathan O'Reilly, .,
Counselor to the President for Galactic Anthropology and Protocol, ., was involved in a millenia-old
conspiracy would find him or her self in a rubber room quicker than you can say "Quick, get the tinfoil beanie!"
A fortunate attitude, since in this case the wackoes were right.
But his position also gave him a cachet in dealing with certain categories of people. Such as his current visitor.
Before his desertion from United States Special mand, mander Peter Left had
been a medium-height man with the build and charisma of a blond, blue-eyed demigod. O'Reilly's visitor was
almost invisible: Brown hair, brown eyes, apparently lightly built, and his face had none of mander's
movie-star good looks. The standard indentification scans for entry to Cheyenne Mountain had even revealed
different palm prints, facial IR patterns, voice print, retinal scans and ics. heless