The Forbidden Text by Clark Dawn

Author:Clark, Dawn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
Published: 2023-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

53

In Black Hole’s briefing room, smoke from Sterling’s habit tinted the air—air that was already thick with apprehension, anticipation, and emergency. Clark and Sterling fell silent as Derek ushered Katrina in. Fleming was on his way but had yet to arrive.

“Done already?” Clark asked, glancing at the clock. Only thirty-two minutes had elapsed since Katrina had begun her last round with Frank.

“She stopped breathing,” Derek scrambled to explain. “I had to snap her out of it.”

Clark’s eyes darkened with concern. “Katrina, are you all right?”

She nodded. “Just a little foggy still,” she replied, and, pouring herself coffee rather than tea, she took a seat across from Sterling at the conference table. She felt as though she’d been gone for days and ached all over. Multitasking in the mystical realms had landed her in a death-defying tailspin, and she was grateful Derek had stepped in when he did.

Derek remained standing, and with an underlying sense of urgency apparent, he said to Clark, “If you don’t need me …”

“Thanks, Derek. I’ve got it covered.” Clark’s terse response offered no clue that he and Derek were in the middle of orchestrating a covert op to Russia.

Turning to leave, Derek caught Katrina’s eye before walking out the door, and he said, “Take care of yourself,” with a worried smile.

Before Katrina could respond, Sterling began peppering her with questions as he smothered his cigarette. “Did you zap Frank? Is he awake?”

“No,” she answered. “But maybe soon.” Katrina hoped against all odds that the single soul piece she had recovered for Frank would be enough to tip the scales.

“Well, what happened?” Sterling asked in a tone that said he had expected results.

“I’ve never experienced anything like it,” she began and then went on to describe the fluid, visceral world that morphed kaleidoscopically in response to emotion and intent—a surreal realm where animals had power and traumatized spirits hung in stasis, waiting to be unchained from earthly suffering.

Sterling stared at her dubiously.

In an effort to reconcile the unusual encounter, she leaned on science. “We live in a three-dimensional universe within what some physicists have dubbed the ‘multiverse.’ This multiverse is eleven-dimensional, and even though most of us are unaware of them, they certainly exist,” she explained. “I think I might have opened an envelope of information stored in another dimension—a living tapestry of threads, bundles of energy fields—all somehow linked to Frank.”

Sun-crinkles sprouted at the corners of Jim Clark’s eyes as she concluded. “Nice work,” he replied, proud of her determination. She had allowed adversity to push her abilities to new limits, yet a brief moment later when he considered where she had been, concerned frown lines replaced his smile. Gateways to dangerous realms had been opened, and he wasn’t sure he had the knowledge to protect her.

During her report, although Sterling had kept a straight face, his ego had struggled with the merits of her participation. Baffled by her account, he looked back and forth between Clark and Katrina and groused, “Am I missing something here?

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