Part Two: Pages 243 - 279 Summary

Carson and de Vaca take horses out to the nearby ruins of Kin Klizhini, where they hope to find the location of a subterranean kiva. Carson finds it and they uncover the plastic specimen jar that contains Dr. Burt's missing notebook. He writes to his partner Amiko, and tells her about his initial project dubbed PurBlood - how in a moment of weakness he falsifies the results to allow his work to be accepted by the rigorous standards of the FDA. He uses himself as a human guinea pig to test the product he created, and then waters down the solution to comply with the FDA parts per million standards. On the way back to Mount Dragon, Guy convinces Susana that the only thing they haven't done is check the purity of one of the steps involving...