Lost Things by Graham Jo & Jo Graham

Author:Graham, Jo & Jo Graham [Scott, Melissa & Graham, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 2012-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

Alma waited by the elevator while Jerry inquired for messages at the front desk of the Great Northern Hotel. She knew from his expression that there were none before he returned to her. "Nothing?" she asked anyway.

Jerry shook his head. "Unless Mitch and Lewis came back ahead of us and are already upstairs. They haven't left a note at the desk and they haven't called."

Alma let him usher her into the elevator. "I wish we knew where they were."

"So do I," Jerry said worriedly. "They could be anywhere. I don't think there's any use in hunting all over town for them." He waited until they were out of the elevator and in the room before he finished his thought. "We've got the tablet. We could dowse for them on a Chicago street map if they're still after Davenport, but chances are it's a moving target. They'd be long gone before we could get a cab and get there."

"Let's save that option," Alma said. She too was worried, but she wasn't sure that running off half cocked and charging all over town was a good plan. And of course they weren't in the room. Even the most cursory inspection revealed that no one had been in the rooms since they'd left, not even the maid. Who probably ought to have been by now, since it was mid-afternoon. Alma poured herself a cup of the now long cold coffee and went to stand by the window looking down at the street. Back to the west the light was obscured by massive thunderclouds building, a classic Midwestern storm still miles away, the clouds purple beneath, burnished with fire above.

"I'm sure they're fine," Jerry said.

"I’m not," Alma said.

"Mitch has a good head on his shoulders and Lewis isn't fragile." Jerry came and stood beside her, his hands in his pockets. When he stood up straight he topped her by four inches. "You don't have to carry us all, all of the time."

"I don't?" Alma gave him a sideways smile, sipping the cold coffee.

"No." Jerry pushed his gold framed glasses further up on his nose. "God knows we've all leaned on you too much. It's probably not been good for us. Good for me." Jerry frowned down at the street. "I couldn't stay here alone ten years ago. That's absolutely true. And when you and Gil needed me, I have no regrets about being there. None. But being back in Chicago has made me start thinking, Al."

"About getting back in the field?" She took another sip of the coffee. "You should, Jerry. You can teach. You can translate. Ok, maybe not a dig in Mesopotamia, but there are a lot of things you can do, a lot of things that the world needs you to do. That's building the Temple too."

"I know." Jerry shrugged. "But it's not that easy. I've been out of it for a long time. There aren't faculties lined up waiting to hire me."

"Still, you could put out some feelers."

"I could."

Alma leaned back on him, bumping him with her shoulder affectionately.

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