Face of Fury by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2020-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

“We are missing something,” Zoe said, really meaning “I am missing something,” because she didn’t expect that Flynn would be able to follow. “There is a bigger picture here. Just like pi.”

“Just like pi…?” Flynn shook his head. “This again?”

Zoe’s mind was racing. Random and irrational: something about the way that Flynn said it had set off a siren in her mind. It sparked off what she had already been thinking about: pi.

Pi, as a number, appeared to be a long string of random digits that followed no pattern or logic. It was random and irrational. Just as the murders seemed to be.

But the thing about pi was that this random and irrational sequence was only random and irrational to the human mind. It did follow a formula, a pattern—just not one that humans had yet been able to grasp. Mathematicians could calculate it to a long sequence, even trillions and quadrillions of digits long—so many that it was impossible to read them all in one lifetime, let alone to begin to do anything with them.

The very existence of pi implied a greater design, some kind of bigger picture that humans were not yet able to grasp. It was a perfect ratio that was always present in every circle: the ratio of the circumference to the diameter. Insert it into an equation, and you could make the numbers come to life. Zoe had the ability to look at a circle and see those numbers right away, her head computing the numbers easily, but for others, it was even more mystifying.

“They are not random and irrational, they just look it,” Zoe said, trying to be patient as she explained, even though she felt the tug of his question holding her back. She needed to keep thinking, to follow this train of thought to the end. “Just like pi. We have no idea how to understand the sequence, no rule to follow to see how the sequence repeats. But that does not mean there is no rule, only that we do not yet understand it. And we are the same. We do not understand yet the rule behind these murders.”

“Isn’t that kind of the point of a murder investigation?” Flynn asked, screwing his face up. “Finding out who did it and why? I don’t see what that has to do with pi. It’s the same for every case.”

Zoe shook her head, turning around in a circle as she tried to think. “You do not get it. It is deeper than that. More involved.” He couldn’t see what she was talking about. Was there even any point in trying to explain it? No one understood what she was talking about half the time anyway, and this was far more complex than what she was normally trying to say. “This is almost philosophical. A search for a pattern where there seems to be none. Making the irrational rational, at least in a mathematical way; there is not much in the way of rational thought involved when you are killing someone over a formula.

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