Ghosts of Our Fathers by Michael Richan

Author:Michael Richan [Richan, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dantull
Published: 2013-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“I’ve only heard about these,” Daniel said, “and most people think they’re a myth.”

They were in the car, returning to Seattle. Daniel was in the back seat, looking at the wooden box that contained the bugs.

“What do they do, exactly?” Roy asked.

“Well, if I marry up what Sam told me,” Daniel said, “with what I’ve heard about them, they’re a kind of parasite. The box keeps them dormant. When I dump them out they’ll seek a host.”

“So the idea would be to dump them out onto Frank, if he appears tonight?” Steven asked.

“Yes,” Daniel said. “One of the side effects of these insects is that they open up all moments in time, but they cause the host to misjudge the present moment. It creates constant anxiety in the host that they feed off. That will neutralize Frank, because he’ll never be able to find us.”

“What, he’ll be looking for us for eternity?” Roy said.

“Essentially,” Daniel said. “He’ll have billions and billions of moments to choose from. The odds of him picking our present moment are so great, he’s effectively gone forever.”

“I would prefer to kill him,” Steven said. “Leaving him hunting for us for the rest of time seems like a bad idea.”

“It works,” said Roy. “It achieves the goal.”

“No Dad,” Steven said, “my goal is not to leave another monster able to return and cause havoc. We left Michael, we left Jurgen. David left Frank. Nobody ever finishes up these problems, they just ‘neutralize’ them. Frank needs to be gone, not just inconvenienced in his search for us.”

“I don’t think you fully understand what ‘gone’ means,” Roy said. “Nothing’s ever really gone. Frank’s body is dead, but you can’t kill a soul, not one with this kind of energy.”

“And these things,” Daniel said, examining the other objects Sam had given him while not really paying attention to Steven and Roy’s discussion, “are amazing. One of them might be a rare chronosphere. I’ll have to check it back in Spokane. Absolutely amazing, can’t believe he gave them to me.”

“Sam likes you,” Roy said. “I think the fact that you’ve got a boy that is about his age when he died made a connection with him that neither Steven or I would have been able to make. So I’m glad you came along.”

Steven was still fuming from the kill vs. neutralize conversation. He’d go along with the plan for now, lacking any better alternatives. But if an opportunity arose to completely take down Frank, he was going to do it.

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