A New World: Reckoning by John O'Brien

Author:John O'Brien [O'Brien, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic
Amazon: B00IB7AZJU
Published: 2014-02-06T17:00:00+00:00

Revelations

On my knees next to Robert, with my arm draped across his back, I send Gonzalez after the doc. Robert, after throwing up, remains on his hands and knees. All of sudden, I feel a pressure in my head. It’s not overpowering or anything like a headache. It’s just, well, something else. Almost like a breath blowing through if that makes any sense. Robert turns his head abruptly and shoots a look at me. As soon as his eyes lock on mine, the pressure changes, shifts, and I can sense Robert.

“Dad?” That was in my head.

“Yeah,” I reply back mentally.

“What the fuck is going on?” he asks.

“I don’t know. Are you okay?” I ask, still stunned beyond compare.

“I…I think so. My head felt like it was coming apart a minute ago, but I feel fine now.”

What I feel is similar to the way I can sense the night runners and understand them. There are some deep, fundamental differences though. The first and possibly the most significant one is that I can not only sense his physical presence, meaning exactly where he is located, but I can feel how he is physically. It’s so precise that I know he is telling me the truth and I can even read his emotions to a certain extent. Another aspect is that we are communicating in a speech pattern rather than in images like the night runners do.

Still in shock, I try blocking him out in the same fashion as I do the night runners. He vanishes from my mind. It’s like the opening and closing with the night runners, but this feels like it’s in a different part of my mind; like it’s in a different compartment. I open up to the night runners and don’t sense Robert.

“What just happened?” Robert says out loud, still looking intently at me.

I open up to him and sense both him and the night runners, each in their different compartments, yet presenting a whole within my reality.

“I closed up and shut you off,” I say with my mind. “Can you sense the night runners?”

“Is that what those pictures are?” he asks.

“Yes.”

Being easier to show rather than say, I use night runner imagery to show Robert how to open and close his sense of them and me. Several tries and explanations later, I can feel him fade but not quite vanish. With work, he’ll get it.

Robert begins to rise from the floor as the doc arrives with Gonzalez following just behind. Looking at the mess on the floor, the doc takes Robert by the wrist and starts him toward the escalator.

“I’m fine,” Robert says, attempting to pull his arm free.

“Go with him,” I say.

“But really, I’m feeling fine. You know that, Dad,” Robert states.

“I know, son, but go with him anyway. Let him check you out,” I say, still shocked about what happened to Robert.

“We’ll take care of this, sir,” Henderson says, motioning his arm over the mess.

“Nonsense. I’ll get it. You go rest,” I respond.

“Sir, go see to him.

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