Vision by Koontz Dean

Author:Koontz, Dean [Koontz, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 1997-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

After she had finished eating, Mary excused herself from the table and went to the bathroom at the far end of the house.

When he was alone with Max, Lou asked, “What about this notion of hers?”

“That Lingard’s come back from the dead?”

“Do you put any stock in that?”

“You’re the student of the occult,” Max said. “You’re the one with hundreds of books on the subject. Besides, you’ve known her longer than I have. You’re the one who introduced us. What do you think?”

“I’ve got an open mind,” Lou said. “I gather you don’t.”

“Her analyst says she threw those glass dogs.”

“Unconscious telekinesis?” Lou asked.

“That’s right.”

“Has she ever shown telekinetic ability before?”

“No,” Max said.

“What about the revolver?”

“I think she was controlling that, too.”

“Shooting at herself?”

“Yes,” Max said.

“And she was guiding the sea gulls?”

“Yes.”

“Controlling living animals... that’s not telekinesis.”

“It’s telepathy of a sort,” Max said.

Lou refilled his wine glass. “That’s rare.”

“It has to be telepathy. I can’t believe those sea gulls were guided by a dead man’s spirit.”

“Why would she want to kill herself?”

“She doesn’t,” Max said.

“Well, if she is the poltergeist behind these phenomena, if she levitated that revolver, then it seems to me that she was trying to kill herself.”

“If she was suicidal,” Max said, “she wouldn’t have missed. But she did miss with the glass dogs, with the revolver, and with the gulls.”

“Then what’s she doing?” Lou asked. “Why is she playing the part of a poltergeist?”

Max frowned. “I have a theory. I think there’s something special about this case, something unusual. She’s foreseen something about it that she refuses to face up to. Something devastating. Something that would completely unhinge her if she thought about it for long. So she pushed it out of her mind. Of course, she could only push it out of her conscious mind. The subconscious never forgets. Now, every time she attempts to pursue a vision that’s connected to this case, her subconscious uses the poltergeist phenomena to distract her.”

“Because her subconscious knows it will be harmful for her to pursue this man.”

“That’s right.”

An icy tremor passed through Lou Pasternak. “What could she have foreseen?”

“Maybe this psychopath will kill her,” Max said.

The thought of Mary dead hit Lou with surprising force. He had known her for more than a decade, had liked her from the moment he met her, and had grown to like her more each year. Liked her? Only that? No. He loved her, too. In a fatherly way. She was so gentle, good-natured. So vulnerable. But until this moment he had not realized how deeply he had come to love her. Mary dead and gone? He felt sick, feverish.

Max watched him with steady gray eyes that revealed nothing of his own emotions. He appeared unaffected, unmoved by the prospect of his wife’s death.

He’s had more time to consider it than I have, Lou thought. He’s had time to become accustomed to the idea of Mary dead. He cares as much as I do, but his feelings have settled from the surface into darker, more affecting regions.

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