The Demon's Apprentice by Ben Reeder

Author:Ben Reeder [Reeder, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3, pdf
Published: 2014-12-16T05:00:00+00:00

I'm in the science lab, and it's still liberally covered in Mr. Chomsky, but his head is still alive and talking, telling his arms to get the rest of him put back together.

“There’s something I’ve still got to finish,” he says. “You’re not done yet,” he tells me when he notices me.

“What do you mean?” I ask his head.

“I just started on you, and now I’m all in pieces. How am I supposed to finish up with you if I’m all over the room like this? Hell of a way to run a lab, if you ask me.” His arms spread themselves wide as if they're still attached to his shoulders.

“Finish up with me?”

“Of course. I hate to leave a project unfinished. But don’t worry; you’ll get done one way or the other. I just hope you turn out well.”

“What were you going to do with me?”

“I wasn’t really sure. You have some potential, but you’re broken in a few places. I really wanted to see if I could help fix you. But, now I’ve got this to deal with, and who knows when I’ll be able to help you.” He sounds a little sad, and I find myself wanting to help somehow, wanting to put him back together. His head turns to me with a sad smile.

“You can’t fix me, Chance. All you can do is find out who broke me. Who knows, it might fix something in you, too.” A disembodied hand shoos me out of the room…

I woke up with the window getting lighter, before I could ask Mr. Chomsky who'd broken him. Of course, I knew he was right, too. I was broken, in a lot of ways. What normal, healthy person would dream of a room full of blood and gore, and hold a conversation with a severed head? That went straight past broken and took the express train to seriously screwed up. Especially since, as dreams went…this one was pretty tame.

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