The End of the World As I Know It (The Ghosts & Demons Series Book 2) by Chute Robert Chazz & Pop Holly

Author:Chute, Robert Chazz & Pop, Holly [Chute, Robert Chazz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ex Parte Press
Published: 2015-04-30T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

The Keep had a portable X-ray machine and medics. The Keep’s chief doctor was a large man with the cataclysmically unfortunate name of Moosejaw. To make matters worse, he had a large jaw, too. He confirmed the break in my left radius bone.

“How long before I’m up and saving the world, Doctor?”

“Six to eight weeks,” he said, “so I hope D-Day doesn’t come that fast. Squeeze a tennis ball and flex your muscles in the cast I give you. Otherwise your muscles will atrophy and your arm will look like a little stick when I take the cast off.”

While he went off to get my cast ready, Victor came into my room and closed the door behind him. He paced for a while before he sat opposite me and drew his chair close. “Does it hurt very much?”

“Yes. It does.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Not your fault. I’m sorry about Samantha. I tried to save her.”

“Of course, you did,” Victor said. “The Ra will do anything to get at me. Cut the head off the snake and all that.”

Lesson 128: In a war zone, there is no such thing as a civilian. Not everyone is a combatant, but everyone is a participant. Sam never wanted any part of the Choir Invisible but she may as well have been a sword singer. She might have had a chance if she’d joined up. Now her children would be motherless. Modern warfare conductors use misleading terms like surgical strikes and collateral damage, but the rule in any conflict is that the women and children suffer more casualties than soldiers do. It takes a lot of steel and armor to remain untouched. I wished Sam had armored up, too.

I looked into the old man’s kind eyes. I had no idea what I was in for when I met Victor Fuentes that day on a bench in a cemetery. He seemed to have all the answers then, so I asked another. “How did a demon take Lynda?”

He shrugged. “There’s some debate about that. It can be done by force if there is some weakness the demons can take advantage of. I hope it was force, or…I don’t know. There are several possibilities, none of them good. I’d like to say that Lynda must have been duped. Perhaps through some drug or spell or deception, she let the demon take over her body. I’ve rarely seen demon possession, but in the cases I know of, the human entered into the pact knowingly.”

“Pact?”

“A contract. Give them your body to move around in and they’ll do something for you.”

“Lynda was a loyal employee. She said she knew you for years.”

“True.”

“She was dying, What would possess her to — sorry, I didn’t mean to put it that way.”

Victor pursed his lips. “You may have answered your own question. She was dying. If I had to guess, and it’s only a guess, I would say the demon offered her a way to die quickly instead of by inches. Her last husband died of early onset Alzheimer’s.

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