Devil's Island by Mark Lukens

Author:Mark Lukens [Lukens, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Horror
Amazon: B06WWJC6VD
Goodreads: 34385069
Published: 2017-02-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

The Third Floor

Warren walked with Nigel and Harold down the wide dark hallway of the third floor. Nigel led the way with a flashlight. Harold had volunteered to operate the camcorder; he had it up to his eye as he walked and the light from the camera helped a little in the gloomy hallway and rooms.

“I’ve been wondering,” Nigel said as they walked along.

Warren knew Nigel was addressing him and couldn’t help taking the bait. “Wondering about what?”

“I was wondering how someone like you could go along with all of this?”

“What do you mean?” Warren asked.

“Well, as you know, I did a little background search on everyone while we were in the airport lounge. You’re a physicist with published papers. You’ve published several books. Even had your own PBS special.”

“So, what you’re asking me is why I’m throwing my career away to chase ghosts in an abandoned building on some remote island.”

“Well said,” Nigel said and grinned at Warren. “Why are you doing this to yourself?”

The conversation back at the University of Texas with Professor Heinz flashed through Warren’s mind for a moment as they stopped walking. He felt Harold watching him with the camera in his peripheral vision, the camera’s eye steady on them. “Because I believe in this.”

Nigel smirked and shook his head slowly. “How can you believe in crap like this?” He gestured at the hallway all around them.

“Crap like what?” Warren asked. “Ghosts? Spirits?”

“Yes,” Nigel answered. “Ghosts and spirits, and what they supposedly prove—that there’s an afterlife. A god watching over all of us, controlling all of this.”

“God?” Warren asked. He was a little surprised that Nigel had brought religion into this.

“Yes, God,” Nigel answered. “I’m sure you’ve guessed that I’m an atheist. And I find the idea of a god ridiculous. God is just a crutch people use to comfort themselves, to believe that their lives are significant, that they have some kind of purpose and all of this isn’t some random blip in the universe.”

Warren smiled. He’d had this conversation many times with other professors at the University of Texas, many of whom shared the same views as Nigel. They almost seemed angry that Warren could be so stupid and gullible to believe in something as naïve as God and the afterlife.

Warren began the defense of his beliefs the same way he’d begun all the other conversations with all of those other professors: “How can you not believe in God?”

“Excuse me?” Nigel asked, his face pinched like he’d just tasted something sour.

“How can you not believe in a supreme being?” Warren said. “How can you not believe in a grand design to the universe? How can you not believe in God? In an afterlife. Science has proven that energy is neither created nor destroyed—it just changes forms. The same amount of energy that was here billions of years ago is still here with us today, only it’s changed into different forms many, many times.”

“Just because energy changes forms doesn’t prove the existence of a god or a supreme being or a grand design.

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