Divine Destruction (The Return of Divinity Book 1) by Suggs Lester

Author:Suggs, Lester [Suggs, Lester]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lester Suggs
Published: 2015-02-21T08:00:00+00:00

Watching the Watchers

Griffin stepped back around the corner of the building two blocks away. He was now wearing a plain, medium blue, short-sleeve shirt, dark blue slacks, and black sports shoes. From a distance he would look like any city employee working inside the temporarily restricted city. It was lucky for Griffin that the DHS had set up shop just beyond the strip district in lesser-used buildings.

“This is a cool trick,” Griffin thought to Gabriel. “How does it work?”

Gabriel replied with mental shrug. “You have access to me, and to a degree, you tell me how it works.”

“Uh, you’re asking me to step onto an alien space ship and take over the controls without any instruction. I can't do that,” Gabriel thought, using the first metaphor that came to mind.

“You can if you are a part of the pilot's mind,” Gabriel answered. Griffin felt an invitation to ride the Archangel’s senses.

“All right, challenge accepted, Mr. Archangel,” Griffin thought. He slipped back into his own mind and found Gabriel. Griffin slowed his breathing and cut everything else out, concentrating purely on the sound of his own breath. He became aware of the air filling and exiting his lungs. He felt his shoulders rock back and forth with each cycle of air. And then he could feel where everyone else around was looking. He wasn’t exactly seeing through their eyes, but had gained awareness of what held each one’s attention. With further concentration Griffin found this information wasn't just coming from their sight, but from their minds. And suddenly it was filtered in simple colors. Each person within several blocks now appeared in their combined thoughts. When distracted by a sight, thought, conversation, or action that didn't include Griffin, they appeared blue-green. When a city worker, police officer, or FEMA worker would look in Griffin’s direction, Gabriel sent an impulse to the worker averting their attention away. Griffin saw sometimes it meant intervening another person to distract the individual whose attention was falling near him. It was subtle, too, not a glaring action. Griffin marveled at how easy it was for Gabriel to do.

“With this much access to human thought, why do you need me to talk to this prophet?” Griffin asked in thought.

“If I removed myself from you, I would just be another source of energy. And a visible source at that. Without you I'm cut off from the transmission. Imagine me as a radio signal, and each human is a radio, and you are my transceiver.”

“Ah. Makes sense,” Griffin thought. “Is there anything else to see here?” He had been nervous when they entered the city, but now he was bordering on paranoid.

“No, we've seen what we need to see. That man is leading a team of people looking for you. He has singled you out with a five others. They will begin to take great interest in you very soon. We need to approach to prophet soon. This evening.”

“Tonight?” Griffin thought about see the woman again, and a range of emotions popped up before he could control them or notice Gabriel's reaction.

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