Geth and the Deception of Dreams by Obert Skye

Author:Obert Skye [Skye, Obert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Shadow Mountain Publishing
Published: 2012-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Daylight Fading

Wisdom is a tricky trait. There are so many these days who profess to be wise when they are no more intelligent than most tree bark. Knowing how to coupon doesn’t make you a genius, it makes you a spendthrift who can operate scissors. Knowing how to type doesn’t make you brilliant, it makes you a type A-through-Z personality. Likewise, knowing how to Sudoku doesn’t make you intellectually superior, it simply means that you not only think in the box but you think in the little boxes. Wisdom comes from living and learning. I know how to speak to an eagle because I spent two weeks high on a mountain tied to a tree and having to learn to live with a nest full of hungry raptors. I can speak seven languages because I have been kidnapped and retrained by seven very different nationalities. And I am wise beyond my years because I once had to boil and eat an entire set of encyclopedias to survive while being held captive by a librarian.

There are very few words that I have not literally devoured.

Geth followed closely behind Jill. It had taken a couple of miles for him to finally shake his hand free from hers as she pulled him. At first Geth had tried to be kind about it, but eventually it was necessary for him to stop and yank back as hard as he could. The moment his mitt was free, one of the women behind him tried to reach out for it. Geth clasped both his hands in front of him to keep them away.

“Let’s just walk,” Geth insisted. “I think I’ll be okay without holding someone’s hand.”

The woman sighed in disappointment. Jill tried to make a case for how she would feel more comfortable if Geth at least held onto her elbow as they walked, but then Geth made a case for how that would never happen.

“We could carry you,” one of the athletic women marching behind Geth offered.

“Yes,” the female pilot said. “Let’s carry him.”

“No carrying,” Geth insisted.

Their party moved through thick fields. Hidden by the growth, they had no fear of being spotted by any boors. But, hidden by the growth, their world began to feel claustrophobic and depressing. And as darkness came on, their journey felt so heavy it was hard to keep walking.

The fields eventually came to an end at a small dirt road near the base of a tall mountain range. Once they had stopped moving, the air was silent.

“So where is this Lars from here?” Geth whispered.

“Not far,” Jill whispered back. “You and I could go look for him alone.”

“I thought you didn’t know where he was,” Geth reminded her.

“I don’t,” Jill admitted. “I just thought we could go looking. You’ll need a Stone Holder now.”

Jill walked out of the crops and onto the dirt road. She held a glow stone in her palm and opened and closed her fingers to make the stone blink. Seconds later there were lights flashing back at her in the distance.

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