Leviathan by Bill Myers

Author:Bill Myers [Myers, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780692565551
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Publisher: Amaris Media International
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“So you’ve been fighting these supposed bad guys, this Gate, for how long?” Anderson asked.

“Long enough to know they don’t play nice,” I said.

“Such as?”

Cowboy answered, “Flying orbs, deadly molds—”

“And mind games.” Andi sounded a little sheepish, no doubt thinking of her last encounter with them in Florida. “They’re pretty good at those.”

“No argument there,” I said, thinking back to my own experience at the show.

We’d been sitting around Andi’s hotel table for the last hour, explaining what we knew. Anderson listened carefully. He wasn’t showing any of his cards, but you could tell he was interested. And concerned.

Finally he asked, “Why?”

“Why what?” I said

“What’s their purpose?”

The professor answered. “That, my good man, is the million dollar question. They appear to want some sort of control. World control. As in dominance.”

“Like in the end times,” Cowboy said.

We looked at him.

“You know, like it says in the Bible.”

Anderson turned to the professor who said, “Not everybody is as gullible as our young friend here, but it does give one pause.”

“And this Sridhar person?”

“A boy we tried to help. One who apparently feels compelled to reconnect.”

“By jamming TVs, cell phones, and monitors?” Anderson asked.

“And maybe more,” Andi said. “Do you remember what happened to your coffee in the control room?” She turned to me. “Or the water glass in the cafeteria?”

“Or my Coke can right here in this room,” Cowboy added.

Andi nodded and pointed to the TV. “If he is indeed lucid dreaming, then maneuvering something with so little mass as electrons or as fluid as water would be the easiest way to impact our own world.”

Anderson looked at her skeptically. “Lucid dreaming?”

“A technique first developed by the Department of Defense.”

“Supposedly developed,” the professor corrected.

Andi ignored him. “Select soldiers with psychic propensities were trained to send their souls out of their bodies while sleeping.”

“To what purpose?”

“To spy on enemy facilities.

“You’re not serious.”

“It’s documented.”

“In part,” the professor said.

“And it worked?” Anderson asked.

“According to the records. Though with some serious side effects.”

“Like running into demons and stuff,” Cowboy said.

Anderson threw him a glance and looked back to Andi. “And you think that’s what this Sridhar fellow is doing, trying to get our attention?”

I spoke up. “The last time we saw him, Sridhar was being trained to work for the Gate.”

Anderson quietly nodded. He looked out the sliding glass door to the balcony, thinking.

“So why did you come here?” Andi asked him.

I added, “Other than irritation over some cellphone malfunction?”

Cowboy interrupted. “If it’s ‘bout what I did at your show, I’m real sorry. But that boy, you could see he was hurt real bad. Like he was gettin’ ready to check out.”

“Which you may have noticed was the entire point of the show,” the professor added drolly. ”

Cowboy looked down and shrugged.

Anderson stared at the big guy a long moment. Finally he spoke, quietly. “What you did tonight, that was some trick.”

“Not his first,” Andi said.

Cowboy tried again. “Like I said, I’m real sorry, but—”

Anderson held up his hand. “No, no. What I saw you do, it was a lot more substantive than anything we were doing.

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