Echoes by Therin Knite

Author:Therin Knite [Knite, Therin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Knite and Day Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“An intellectual orgasm.”

My head snaps up, the healing muscles in my shoulder tightening so hard a hiss blows through my teeth. I was so engrossed in heterochromia lady’s case file that I didn’t hear anyone enter the surgery room. The man standing opposite me has a skewed grin. It matches his skewed workstation glasses, which are dotted with various pieces of information being fed into the lenses from a specialized computer somewhere in the building. A hazy image of this man floats to the surface of my mind: he was at the Manson house with Dynara.

“Is that what you call an epiphany?” I ask.

“Sometimes,” he says.

Lana, who’s busy packing up her equipment for the night, chuckles. “Lance likes to add the word ‘orgasm’ to everything.”

“Why?” I ask Lance. “Has the amount of cream in your coffee clogged your brain?”

A blond eyebrow rises over the rim of his glasses. “Dy didn’t tell you that, did she?”

“No, she had five coffees. All of them were telling, and you seem to be someone who likes to blunt the coffeeness of coffee.”

“Is that a metaphor for something dark and depressing?”

“Is it?”

The answer is yes, I already know. He’s only a few years older than me, but the experience of past tragedy haunts the edges of his lackadaisical expressions. The dampened horror of losing a loved one. There’s an item of remembrance hidden under his shirt too, a necklace sporting the outlines of two rings.

“Why bother to ask when I don’t need to answer?” Lance says.

“How do you know I know the answer?”

“Oh, gods almighty,” Lana mumbles. She grabs her orange pea coat and heads for the door. “I’m getting out of here before you boys descend into some riddle war.” In the doorway, she hesitates. “I’m sure you already know this, Adem, but don’t overuse your arm for the next week or so. Unless you want to end up in another doctor’s surgery room. I don’t like repeat customers. So if you screw up my work, I’ll kick you to the curb.” With that, she disappears into the maze of EDPA halls.

“You have that same look Dy gets when she analyzes people,” Lance says. “That’s how I know you know.” He shuffles over to a counter bolted to the wall next to the cabinet and grabs the short stool underneath it. All it takes is a light tug to send it rolling my way. It bounces off the edge of my surgery bed and rebounds a few feet before coming to a stop. Lance sets himself on it with no adjustment, pretending he knew where it was going to go.

“It’s as if you’re looking right through me,” he continues, “like I’m nothing but words and images stockpiled into physical shape.”

“You make me sound cold.”

“You are cold. It’s a genius thing.”

“You’ve met a lot of geniuses then?”

“Only Dy before you. But she’s the one who told me that.” He leans across the chasm between us and offers me a hand. “Is your name really Adem

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