Agent Bayne - PsyCop 9 by Jordan Castillo Price

Author:Jordan Castillo Price
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JCP Books LLC
Published: 2018-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Even though she was the director of PsyTrain, the biggest psychic training facility on the West Coast, maybe even the country, because we were old friends, Faun Windsong made the time to take my call. “I think it’s commendable that you’re putting together some new resource material,” she said. “Everything out there is completely outdated. There was that big rush of exploration in the seventies and eighties when Marie St. Savon was all over the news, but then nothing. Even once the official reports came out.”

I wasn’t necessarily sure mediums were as few and far between as they seemed to be. Mediumship encompasses a lot more than just talking to dead people. Maybe it was just difficult to tell if your subtle bodies were sliding around. “Anything you could tell us about your early experiences would be great,” I said.

Faun gave a wistful sigh through the speakerphone. “Things were so different back then, weren’t they? Only three channels on TV, cable if you were lucky, and the whole family shared the same phone. Maybe that’s why we all played with Ouija boards.”

I never had, but even with my faulty memory, I recalled that my general selection of toys was so poor that I could attribute it to a lack of funds rather than anything more foreboding.

“Obviously,” she said, “the pointer isn’t going to move across the board of its own accord unless you’re a telekinetic.”

An image of Movie Mike sprang to mind. Young and cocky, making tiny origami cranes skitter across a tabletop…before the bad drugs put him in diapers and a wheelchair. Psyactives? Probably. As if I needed any more reason to avoid drugs.

“But back when we were kids,” she went on, “there were no levels and talents. I don’t think we even considered whether or not we might be psychic. We attributed all the power to the board. The spirit. I played with my best friends in the world, two girls and a boy. We all lived on the same street, and had gone to the same school from kindergarten on. Inseparable. The four musketeers. We were still in grammar school when I got the board and we started engaging with it, and at first, it was fun.”

Her voice went a little wistful. “Do you think we’re all tapped in to a greater intelligence? I like to think so, but the questions a ten-year-old would think to ask aren’t exactly earth-shattering. Questions about who we were going to marry and how many children we’ll have. Not Dave, he wanted to know if he’d ever play for the Bears. But the rest of us, all we really aspired to was settling down and making a home.”

Which, it turned out, she never had. Unless you counted PsyTrain, but that really wasn’t the same.

“As far as I know, none of those predictions came true. I’ve never seen precognitive ability go hand in hand with Lightworking. Maybe they’re mutually exclusive. Anyhow, it was when we started asking for advice and not predictions that the board’s answers started changing.

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