The Immortals Trilogy Books 1-3: Tales of Immortality, Resurrection and the Rapture (BOX SET) by C. F. Waller

Author:C. F. Waller
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: The Conduit, The Calling Tree, The Agreement
Published: 2017-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

How long has it been since I rode in an internal combustion automobile? The relic rattles and creaks as it plows down the Autobahn. Most of this noise is obscured by the sound of the car’s impressive audio system. The original having been replaced long ago, the upgraded unit rattles the windows with an unknown pop song. Jenn’s head bops from side to side, as she moves back and forth passing slower electric cars. Glancing back, I observe a red Mercedes plowing through the haze of blue exhaust fumes that trickle from our tailpipes. I cannot see the speedometer as it’s analog and sunk into the dash in front of the driver, but estimate a velocity exceeding 100 miles per hour. Unsure which button lowers the volume; I tap her on the shoulder, then point at my ear.

“What?” she shouts, and then turns down the volume when I fail to respond.

“Many thanks,” I nod, taking a deep breath.

“What’s on your mind?”

“Your talent, whatever we choose to call it,” I propose and then pause. “Possibly you could explain how it is a deterrent to violence or capture?”

“If they try and grab me,” she explains, and then rolls her eyes.

“Yes, but what if your apprehension is not their objective?”

“I think she wants me.”

“You’re alluding to this person Rhea?”

She nods and I ponder her inference that she could, for lack of a better word, suck the life out of her attacker. The possibility that she could also return life to an actual person instead of a dog lights a fire in my brain. If so, she would be in an almost godlike position. A possibility that may require further investigation.

“This gift works on humans?”

“Probably, but I have never tried anything like that,” she assures me. “Father forbid it on moral and ethical grounds.”

“Those reasons being?”

“Life and death are at his discretion,” she reveals, pointing a finger at the roof of the car.

“I did notice his preoccupation with religious rituals. Am I to understand he believed in a higher power?”

“Oh yes, he claimed he had it on good authority that the big man exists.”

“Dorian and Beatrix often a shared delusion on this matter as well.”

“He didn’t acquire his belief from your pals.”

“Pray tell who then?”

“I did mention he spent a significant amount of time with the Queen of the Immortals did I not?” she states with conviction.

“Queen of the—.”

“Immortals,” she interrupts as the car jerks wildly around a slower car. “Dad always referred to Rhea as the Queen.”

“And she confirmed the existence of God?”

“Not in so many words,” she balks. “But she inferred as much.”

“But animals are soulless and thus fair game for you to express your gift?”

“Apparently so.”

The perplexing thing about her talent is, how was it acquired? Being the result of Dorian’s son’s tryst with a mere mortal woman, it seems unlikely that this mutation would occur naturally. Moreover, I cannot recall any mention of this sort of power over my lengthy life. Our kind simply do not age, we are not wizards.

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