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How They Tried to Talk Indian Tony Down

by Kage Baker

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Science Fiction

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This happened about ten years ago, out at Tobin Farm.

Back in the sixties, somebody bought Tobin Farm for the purposes of holding a renaissance

fair there during the summers. Offseasons it became a kind of commune for the people involved in

putting on the fair. They lived modestly in sheds and trailers scattered on a hundred acres of oak

wilderness back of the farm, collecting unemployment between fairs.

They had their own communal security force, in case of problems. Twenty-five years on,

though, most of the members of the commune were arthritic and bespectacled and never got up to

much in the way of trouble, except for domestic disputes or the occasional DUI.

Abby and Martha Caldecott lived at the foot of a hill, some distance from the center of the

little community. Abby was into Wicca and Martha wrote romance novels, and during fair the sisters

ran a beer booth. Remote as their trailer was, it was cozily domestic. There were bright geraniums

in coffee cans. There was a small lawn and lawn chairs. There were plastic party lights strung

from the awning, bright tropical fish. The lights shone out cheerily in the shadow of the hill. It

was a dark cold shadow, because the hill was thought to be haunted.

On the night it happened, Abby was washing dishes after supper and Martha was watching an

Alfred Hitchcock movie on the VCR (their television reception was oddly sporadic) when they became

aware that somebody was up on the hill, whistling.

It was a plaintive whistle, as though somebody was trying to summon a lost dog, and as the

sisters conferred they realized the sound had been going on at intervals since that afternoon. It

was now pitch dark and past nine at night. Given that, and given the rumors about the hill, the

sisters decided not to investigate. Abby made a pan of cocoa and Martha turned up the volume on

_The Birds_.

They were sipping cocoa and watching the film when headlights flashed outside.

The sisters sighed and paused their tape. Abby got up and went out to investigate; a pickup

truck had pulled into the gravel space beyond the lawn. Killer Mikey was just getting out.

Killer Mikey had been to Nam, a long time ago, and done very bad things there. He was okay

now, though his hands still shook sometimes; but because he was familiar with things like radios

and Situations, he had been made security chief for the commune. He stood now doubtfully shining

his maglight up into the trees, announcing into his radio that he had arrived at the location.

Abby asked him what was going on and he asked her if she knew what the whistling was. She told him

she didn't, and he told her it was worrying all the people who lived up on Snob Hill, which was

the cluster of trailers on the ridge opposite. He had radioed for backup.

As they stood there talking, the whistling came again, and this time right after it a faint

little voice cried out Hey, from way far up in the darkness.

Killer Mikey walked backward, shining his light further up, and asked who was up there.

After a long moment the voice replied Tony, and Killer Mikey frowned and then said Indian Tony?

Indian Tony was called that because he claimed to have been an Oglala Sioux shaman in a

previous life.

Indian Tony affirmed that it was he. Killer Mikey asked him what he was doing up there.

There followed about five minutes of shouted questions and mostly incoherent answers, but

the gist of it was: Indian Tony had gone for a hike and got himself lost, and didn't know how to

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