CONVERGENCE by Cole McCade

Author:Cole McCade [McCade, Cole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

[7: IF YOU TRUST ME]

SEONG-JAE HAD NEVER TASTED ANYTHING more disgusting than the cup of hospital waiting room coffee pressed to his lips.

But it had been his only option to get himself moving, when Malcolm had woken him out of a dead sleep and told him the Captain had called with a lead.

Wyoming.

The entire waiting room had been like a zombie horde, as everyone dragged themselves up and out the door. Seong-Jae needed to start keeping caffeine pills in his pocket, if it meant avoiding relying on this foul, bitter black swill to wake him up. He had not even managed to soften it with creamer, when the creamer at the waiting room coffee station had been a damp, disgusting brick that would not come out of the shaker. So black it had been.

His only other option was trying to get through this morning with no caffeine at all, and that…

That just might start the tears again.

He would prefer to avoid that if at all possible.

The sun streaming through the upper windows of the war room was too bright, as he settled to sit on the edge of one of the worktables with his near-empty cup pressed to his lips, looking up at the data displayed on the trio of big screens. Everything they had on Seth Duvonne, Lucas Aleks, Sila, arranged as if tacked onto bulleting boards with related information grouped into clusters. He let his eyes go unfocused, just drifting, letting himself wander to see what he snagged on; if anything jumped out at him when he was not narrowing in on one specific thing.

Wyoming.

How could Sila be connected to Wyoming?

Malcolm settled at his side, his heavy weight making the table creak. He was still in the borrowed clothing from last night, just another sign of this hell that never ended, never even gave them a dividing line between one day and the next.

Seong-Jae tapped his lips with the rim of the foam cup. “You are certain there is nothing in Normand’s history that could make Wyoming significant.”

“Nothing that I can think of.” Malcolm shook his head gravely. “Which means, by process of elimination, that it’s got to be connected to Sila.”

“Or it could be a random choice, and we are seeing meaning that is not there.”

“That too. But considering they both tend to gravitate toward things of significance in their past, I need to hope this is connected somehow or we’ll never figure this out.” Malcolm cocked his head. “Did he ever mention Wyoming to you at all?”

“Never.” Seong-Jae shook his head, then wrinkled his nose. “But he liked to be non-specific. This Indigo Child of light and air. Mortal locations were meaningless to him when he was the wind, everywhere at once.”

Malcolm snorted. “Maybe he should’ve channeled that into—I don’t know, writing books or making new age music, instead of murdering people.”

“If only.”

“What a different world that would’ve been.” Malcolm craned his head over his shoulder, toward Gretchen. “How’re we doing on that search net?”

“Getting inbound check-ins from locals on the ground in Wyoming as we speak.

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