Cayo Elina, A Zombie Chronicles Novel by Mark Clodi

Author:Mark Clodi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adventure, action, apocalypse, zombie, superhuman

Chapter 33

“Gus, wait!” Elina called after him as he trudged away.

He paused near the entrance to the building and turned back with a questioning look on his face.

“Wait up a minute.” Elina moved over by his side. Once in the doorway they could both keep an eye on most of the technicians, who were busy taking apart some sort of motor they had found.

“I heard you while you were fighting, you were talking and you said something I want to test.” Elina said to him.

“Sure. What?”

“You mumbled something about not being able to see the cause, but being able to see the effect. So you can’t see what isn’t there, like me, but can you see what I do?”

A smile crept to Gus’s face, “Yeah?”

“So let’s test it. You look ahead a little and see what I’m going to do, write it down in your notebook and…” Elina stopped as Gus shook his head.

“I gave it to Anne Marie for safekeeping.”

Elina thought for a moment, and then a sly grin crossed her face… “You’re gaming the system!”

Gus blushed.

“You said you read stuff in the notebook, stuff you’re going to write down later. So, you left the notebook to ensure that you would be alive to write it later! The best thing I can do is tell her not to give it back to you until after everything has blown over.”

Gus looked pained, “I don’t think it works that way, the future changes with each thing we do. You’re right, I did leave it with her, hoping I could, I dunno, stop something from happening or at least delay it.”

“Your death.”

Gus didn’t make any effort to confirm or deny the statement, but moved ahead like a charging bull, “So this is more of a test, really. I think I will write more stuff in it, as I figure it out, it’s easier than losing so much of my life as my mind wanders.” Gus’s gaze shifted ever so slightly as he was talking, his face drifting away from Elina’s.

“What?” Elina asked.

“Hm?”

Elina put her hand on Gus’s chin and looked into his eyes, ‘Either I never noticed this or something is changing with him.’ Gus’s eyes had what looked like a thin milky haze cover the pupils. “What’s happening with your eyes?”

Gus shook her hand away. “My eyesight’s never been that good.”

“Gus, are you losing your vision?”

“Which kind?” he joked.

“The kind that lets you see the here and now.”

Slowly he nodded, “It seems like it’s worse than when I was on the island.”

“It’s getting worse?” Elina asked.

“Yeah, I think so.” He answered.

“Shit.”

“Yeah. The upside is my third eye is working better than ever.”

“Do you think it’s related? Maybe if you stopped looking ahead you’d retain more of your normal vision?”

Gus shook his head, with a frown on his face, “Elina, I come from a family that had cataracts. I’m not old enough to be getting them and what, with the whole ‘Maxson’ thing I thought that was one problem solved. I think it’s happening faster than normal, but I don’t think looking ahead has anything to do with it.

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