Sinner by Ted Dekker

Author:Ted Dekker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781595540089
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Published: 2010-03-29T10:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

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Day Seven

DARCY FELT a bit lost. Powerless even.Which to her way of thinking was a bit terrifying. She’d gone from the highest peak of confidence and power to this miserable state of denial in the space of two days.

One day, God’s gift to the world, the next day, scum of the earth.

She knew none of her feelings were justified. She hadn’t lost any power, and even if she had, since when did she need this gift, this drug, to help her through the day? She’d made a perfectly good life for herself before all of this, thank you very much. And it didn’t include performing for others at their whim.

And yet . . .

She’d fully expected the council to demand another meeting on Monday, but they left Billy and Darcy in their glass prison to stew and watch the Net.

Billy had spent Tuesday morning scanning the Net while she finished reading Birthright, the Frakes vampire novel. She eventually joined Billy on the couch, scanning the reports and blogs. Johnny’s visit seemed to have stirred up fresh concerns about Marsuvees Black in him.

Interesting, yes, but something else had taken charge of Darcy’s mind.

She simply could not dislodge the idea of speaking to a million people at once over the Net. A hundred thoughts, some of which might disturb Billy, buzzed through her mind, simple what ifs that she immediately rejected as preposterous.

But . . . what if?

It was one o’clock in the afternoon before the badgering thoughts became too much for her. She stood from the couch, intending to do something about it.

“I want to test it,” she announced.

Billy tapped the remote and muted the Net. “Test what?”

“The Net.Me speaking over the Net.”

They’d maintained a rule that at least one of them would wear glasses at all times unless both agreed to bare themselves to each other; at the moment she wore hers.

Billy retrieved his sunglasses from the table, slid them on, and sat back. “You mean your power, over the airwaves.”

“We have to know, right? I’m not saying I would ever expose myself on the Net—it’s dangerous, you’ve already established that.” She walked toward the phone. “But it’s stupid not to know.”

“You sure you really want to know? I mean, even knowing that you have that kind of power could mess with your mind.”

There, he’d said it. Darcy suppressed an urge to snap at him and picked up the phone.

“I have you to keep me in line, dear Billy.”Maybe a little too much bite in her voice. She sighed. “I need to do this. It’s driving me crazy.”

He frowned and nodded. “It would be a trip, wouldn’t it?”

There’s my Billy. She smiled and dialed Kinnard.

IT WAS three o’clock before Kinnard broke free, set up a room at CIA headquarters for the test, and arranged secure transportation to Langley.

They stood in a communications room, essentially a small television studio without the sets. A single camera faced a stool from a tripod ten feet away, blinking red.

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