The Touch by Randall Wallace

Author:Randall Wallace [Wallace, Randall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, FICTION / Christian / General, FICTION / General
ISBN: 9781414343662
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2011-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

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Two weeks after Lara Blair came to Virginia and drove up into the mountains to visit the Blue Ridge clinic with Jones, old Sam finally came down from the mountains and showed up at the Charlottesville hospital.

Sam had lived for the last fifty years in an Appalachian valley—the locals called it a holler—so isolated that he had no electricity and no running water; in all that time he had not journeyed to what he call the flatlands. Jones welcomed him and arranged for him to be admitted, though the paperwork was an issue since Sam had never filed for anything from the government and their only records of his life were a driver’s license and the records he had filled out when he joined the Army in World War II. Jones found a place for Allen to stay—Allen said he would be content with the couch in Jones’s office, since he planned to spend every moment making sure his oldest and only friend was not poisoned or poked to death by a nurse—and the hospital staff immediately began running tests on Sam.

It was the MRI that scared Sam the most; to be strapped to a moving slab and slid into a coffinlike space that rattled and screamed like the mouth of hell did not comfort Sam; when Jones dropped in to see him just before the procedure, Sam told him, “I don’t want to see the Immer Eye.”

Jones realized Sam thought the doctors had been talking about something monstrous and tried to reassure him, saying, “Sam, I know the Immer Eye . . . the MRI . . . it sounds bad but there’s not a thing this machine can do that will hurt you.”

“The feller that wheeled me down here from the room told me to leave my watch cause the Immer Eye would jerk it right outer my pocket and even if it didn’t my watch wouldn’t never work again if it even got in the same room with the Immer Eye.”

“It won’t hurt you, Sam. I promise.” When Jones saw Sam’s eyes, watery and blue like a mountain sky on a foggy morning, look up into his, Jones patted the old man’s boney shoulder and said, “Trust me, Sam. I won’t let anyone hurt you.”

Jones stood and watched as they wheeled Sam into the scanning room. As the door closed Jones was left alone, and his thoughts drifted. To Lara.

* * *

At the moment that Sam was being slid into the Immer Eye and was yelling out to Allen, waiting for him in the control room, that to him it looked more an Immer Anus, Lara was working at her lab.

Since returning from Virginia she had been even more driven than before—and less patient. No one, least of all Lara herself, doubted that the discovery of the microscopic figurines had given them all reasons to hope that the techniques they had spent so much time and money and effort trying to develop might be more than theoretically possible, but were actually within their grasp.

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