Dreamonologist by Gregory Pettit

Author:Gregory Pettit [Pettit, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781095474402
Published: 2019-06-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

1900, Sunday, June 19–0900, Monday, June 20, 2016

When I woke up a few hours later, I was at the Sons’ headquarters on Temple Avenue in one of the on-call rooms. My first thought was for Vir. I didn’t know what Henry had done to him, but he’d sounded hurt and scared. My very distant second thought was for Paula and what Henry had been about to do to her when I passed out. Finally, I realized that I should be concerned for myself. Normally, when I passed out after using my powers at work, I’d be dumped at home to rest. I wondered if I was in trouble for being part of a twice-botched operation. Of course, I wasn’t sure if I was upset that the operation had been a failure. Henry had only really been defending himself. While some of the things that I’d helped stop during my time with the Sons had obviously been malignant, there was no indication that Henry fell into that category. I was reminded of the warnings that Father O. and Senior Auditor Brown had given me about the Sons’ treatment of attuned, the hostility I’d seen in the office recently, Sloane’s veiled threats, and the Escapees—I wondered how long it would be until I found myself in a locked room.

That said, I breathed a sigh of relief when the door handle turned and I was able to exit the room without setting off any alarms. I was the opposite of relieved a moment later when a couple of waiting agents popped up from their seats on the other side of the nearly empty Sunday evening office. One was a black man in his early forties, who I didn’t know, and the other, broad-shouldered figure was Christian.

“Christian, do you know what happened to Vir? How is he?” I inquired. My heart rose up to my throat and I held my breath as I waited for the big man’s reply—I wasn’t sure how I’d function if I’d managed to get another person I’d cared about hurt. There were so damned many already…

The big Afrikaner shook his head. “Hello, Julian. You’re to go to the boss lady’s office. She answers your questions. We’ll make sure that where you are doesn’t become a question, eh?” he said with a friendly smile stretching his well-tanned face as the pair of men fell in on either side of me. A minute later, I was deposited in Mia’s office.

“Christian, Michael, could you please leave us? Mr. Adler’s disciplinary review is a private HR matter.” Mia’s voice was clipped and angry. The two men left, Christian giving me a commiserative pat on the shoulder as he departed.

“Report,” Mia commanded when they were gone, switching to a much more subdued tone.

“How’s Vir?” I countered, angry that she cared so little for my friend. In retaliation, she didn’t lift her eyes from her laptop screen for nearly a minute or offer me a seat. I hadn’t fully recovered from using my abilities,

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