Convergence by J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox

Author:J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox [Rain, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620072899
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2017-07-30T23:00:00+00:00

amily time helped me settle my spinning brain.

I stayed up late watching movies with Eva. The next day reminded me a lot of my senior year in high school, hanging around the shop and kinda-sorta working there. Only instead of trying to sneak away from the parents to spend time with… I think his name was Kurt… I talked with them. A lot about how they found me as well as what they thought of the thing that attacked Melodie, and the critter from the hotel.

Based on my description of the room and the brief glimpse in the video chat, they suggested the most likely entity to be a shaz-alor, a part-ethereal-part-solid creature that spawned several legends of demons associated with Sumerian mysticism. Dad doesn’t think it’s a true demon. For him to accept that, he’d have to consider the existence of deities. Neither he nor Mom believe in anything close to actual gods. So many cultures have come up with so many different (often conflicting) ideas of gods, he lumps them all into the pile of folklore. At least the ones he can’t tie to a known creature from The Echo or known human with magical abilities.

Anyway, a shaz-alor can supposedly draw a living being into its vaporous body and eject them later. The circular path from the window to the desk made me think it grabbed Dr. Kumar and disappeared into the night, but clearly, she got away somehow since she’s back in Geneva. Dad even suggested the good doctor might have magical talent and summoned the thing herself for a quick ride home. It’s as good idea as any. With all the people in that hotel, I doubt the random victim theory. It’s too much of a coincidence that the woman running the project responsible for the Convergence happens to get grabbed by a numina days before the event. According to my parents, uncontrolled shaz-alor tend to ambush people and medium-sized animals, carry them off somewhere remote, and eat them. Mostly. Heart, kidneys, liver, and brain. A skilled enough mage can control them and use them like paranormal Uber. When I mentioned Dr. Kumar was back in Geneva, Mom said a shaz-alor could’ve made the trip there from New York in about an hour.

Hmm.

Anyway… spending time with the family at least confirms there’s an island I can flee to if the world decides to treat elves like they do everything else that’s different. I doubt I’m in any danger of discriminatory laws or anything that organized unless a sudden influx of Val’nathiri occurs. Even if it did, Mom is sure they’d keep to Wales, or New Zealand, or some other place with boatloads of trees. My money is on the Pacific Northwest.

I wound up staying the night again and heading back to the City Friday morning. Eva’s emergence from her shell charged up the parents. You’d think they’d gotten ten years younger. Following the validation of her not being crazy for seeing all those numina, she almost reached my levels of chattiness at that age.

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