Hunting Nora Stone by Colin Weldon

Author:Colin Weldon [Weldon, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

PARIS

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Tarsis stood on the corner of Avenue de la Grande Armee and looked across the street at the Arc de Triomphe. He watched the play of shadows cast by the sculpted reliefs on the south facing façade as car headlights bounced off it. His eyes focused in on the La Prise d’Alexandrie (The Fall of Alexandria). He zoomed in on the stone-carved depictions of men in combat. Something was triggering in his mind about it. A file he could not access. He turned his attention to the underground entrance to his left, which led to the busy circular street towards the famous monument. He glanced once more at the carved depictions of men in battle and frowned. He then logged the reaction for diagnostic purposes later. He made his way off the street and down into the tunnel that ran under the road. He kept his gaze forward, logging the faces of the passers-by as they went about their business. Each of them unaware that their life stories were playing at high speed in front of the eyes of the man they had just walked past. There was nothing to concern Tarsis down here from a tactical perspective. Nobody knew he was here. The tunnel was well lit with high fluorescent tubes of light lining the walls. Tarsis, dressed in black fatigues and a black hooded top was making sure to move quietly but quickly towards his destination.

His imaging scanners flickered for a moment as his eyes caught something odd up ahead. He stopped and looked as a young boy stood and smiled. He was alone, about seven or eight years old with dark hair and large brown eyes. He was smiling at Tarsis. There was something else that made Tarsis check his imaging scanners again. The boy seemed to be semi- transparent.

“Chase me!” the boy shouted as he turned and began running down the tunnel.

Tarsis locked onto his face and started running it through every known database on the planet. There was something familiar about the boy. Something he was locked out of seeing. Something about his smile.

“Chase me!” shouted the boy as he continued to run down the long tunnel.

Tarsis continued to run through the facial recognition software but quickened his pace as he tried to catch up to the little transparent boy. Still, no hits on the boy’s identity, but there was something. Tarsis’s vision flickered momentarily as a heat warning began flashing in the upper right-hand corner of his vision. He needed to get inside. He started running down the tunnel, but the boy was gone. He enhanced his distance and zoomed as far as he could, but it was no use.

“You’ll never catch me Daddy!” said the boy’s voice echoing off the walls.

He stopped and checked the faces of the passers-by who were beginning to look at him oddly. He knew that voice. He stepped back and planted his back against the tiled wall. He looked left and right. Up ahead, a police officer was making his way towards him.

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