From the Fire IV by Kelly Kent David

Author:Kelly, Kent David [Kelly, Kent David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Wonderland Imprints
Published: 2014-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

IV-5

THE SHARDS THAT ARE GONE FOREVER

(A researcher’s notes: From this point for a time, the record begins to fray. Excruciating detail lies intermittent with the sparsest of riddles.)

(Following the detailed entries concerning her recorded conversations with Silas, Mrs. St.-Germain provides us with only brief and meager anecdotes concerning her ongoing life within the shelter. The obsessive and iterative detail provided in earlier sections of the diary is lacking in this regard.)

(And why?)

(It seems, I believe, that once Sophie had another soul — someone else within the shelter to confide in — her priorities completely changed. Her ultimate goal was still to be reunited with her daughter, but she was no longer reading and writing endlessly to keep herself from becoming suicidal. Ergo, she no longer had the inclination to detail everything she did. Clearly, care for Mr. Colson was paramount and preparations for the Gray Rain Exodus were continuing as she planned for the road journey to Mitch and Lacie and the house near to the town of Kersey, Colorado.)

(That tale is soon to follow, as best as it can be reconstructed.)

(What she specifically states that she had not done, however, was to use the radio to search for survivors or to contact the emergency fortification in Fort Morgan ever again. She dared not attempt to call Mitch and Lacie either, not after the warning that her channel was not secure. Others, particularly military splinter force representatives, were surely listening and desperately striving to find Sophie’s shelter for themselves.)

(However, she does note that she did find a small digital recorder, which was used to record the conversations with Silas. She also wrote briefly that she would turn the radio on and plug the recorder in near the speaker when she went to bed, listening. She would wake to several hours of recorded static which she could fast-forward through in several minutes, likely to confirm that Mitch had not tried to contact her.)

(One time, after several days, she did hear a recorded series of clicks. She slowed it down. There, just once and not repeated. But the words were sent by Mitch, she was certain of it. She quickly decoded it in accordance with her earlier methodology, and found this: ‘SHE LOVES YOU’ and another line thereafter, ‘LEAVE IN SEVEN DAYS.’)

(My bare narrative, derived from her few other notes from this dire time, continues hereafter.)

— S.-G. C.)

~

And what of the time thereafter, before the Gray Rain Exodus?

We know only a little of the interim. But we can guess.

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