Companion by Kirk James Ward & Baer William

Author:Kirk, James Ward & Baer, William
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: James Ward Kirk Publishing
Published: 2017-04-21T00:00:00+00:00

25.

Los Angeles Zoo

(Thursday, April 8th)

Seton stood out in the open, alone, amid the other zoo-goers, cautiously waiting and watching. Behind her, she could hear the weird chirps and screeches from the aviary, and all around her, she could see the slowly falling dusk.

She'd arrived early, only to learn that it was an hour to closing time, and she was afraid that he wouldn't come.

Where was he?

Under her arm, Seton was holding a small parcel of books. After an hour of surfing the web, reading about demons, satanists, and familiars, she realized that she needed something more in-depth, and she called several of the used bookstores in town, over on Wilshire, up in Hollywood, and she found what she wanted: Oesterreich on possession, Sheed's “classic” on Satan, and several others. It gave her an ugly feeling to purchase such books, and to carry them around with her, but she felt that she needed all the help she could get.

Then she rushed to Griffith Park and the L.A. Zoo and began waiting.

Eventually, as if from nowhere, David appeared, dressed as always and looking quite refreshed. From the look on his face, Seton could tell that the struggle she’d sensed earlier on the phone was over. Or had never existed.

"You need to give us a chance,” he said politely. “We can make your life so much better."

He looked at the package under her arm.

"Those things won’t help,” he said dismissively, “besides the Sheed book is terribly biased and way out-of-date.”

“Maybe we have nothing to say to each other,” Seton said, realizing that coming here, against Fr. Hallam’s advice, was both reckless and foolish.

“Just talk to him, Seton. He’ll give you whatever you want.”

She shook her head.

“That’ll never happen, David. Maybe we can talk some other time.”

She turned around and walked away, but David followed her, along the narrow pathways to the westside of the zoo. She couldn’t see him, but she knew he was there.

She could smell him.

"Someone’s a little stuck-up today, Ms. Boullan.”

The sarcasm was back.

She turned around and tried again.

"David, you need to fight it."

"Fight what?"

He pulled out the same knife he’d used to cut himself two nights ago. When Seton reached for her Taser, David walked away.

Into the Campo Gorilla Reserve.

Wanting to leave, but concerned that he might hurt someone, Seton followed him into the reserve, but he wasn’t there. She wandered around, amid the dwindling number of tourists and visitors, ending up in the now-deserted glass-cage building, where the apes were sometimes lured by their keepers, so the visitors could see them “up-close.” At the moment, the cages were empty, except for the largest one in the middle. Inside, there was a tremendous black gorilla, sitting on a rock, staring though the glass, with David sitting next to him.

Horrified, Seton pulled out her cellphone, but it flew out of her hand and smashed into the glass cage. Like two nights ago, she found that she was unable to move, unable to speak, but she could read the marker right

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