Out of Touch: (Touch of Gray, Book 1) by Leia Howard

Author:Leia Howard [Howard, Leia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

I hurry back to my office and review the waiting case in depth prior to my reading. The petitioner is the RCMP, thus the details of the report are very thorough. Remnants of a small boat and a few articles of clothing washed ashore near Astoria. There was no way to identify the boat, no markings were found on the scant pieces of wood. The clothes were also not identifiable. An alert went out to other coastal towns along the northern Pacific to see if any other debris had washed ashore. While other clothing and small bits of boat were found, still nothing that could be used as identification. The Canadian Coast Guard was sent out to likely points of origin based on reverse drift analysis, but nothing was seen. The Psycept case is a last-ditch effort to try to get a reading off the few pieces of clothing.

The primary case number is assigned to a PsyChometrist in the Great Basin Conservatorship, and I’m the secondary to maximize the likelihood of a positive reading. We both received several articles of clothing. I may not get a reading if the clothes aren’t valued and the PsyChometrist may have interference from the salt. Some minerals disrupted the psychic emissions of objects and it’s difficult to remove salt imbedded in cotton weave. With a sense of dread, I realize both cases were created Sunday early afternoon and my package arrived in ABQ via special military courier Sunday night. I kick myself for not looking more carefully at the case when I logged it received on Monday. I didn’t look over the details, nor notice the little icon indicating it was linked to another case.

I perform my normal ritual on the table in my consultation corner. I use the time to quiet my mind. Trying to do a reading while feeling anxious is not helpful. The first and second fragments of shirt don’t yield a clear lake. Instead, I’m on a frozen block of ice with fog rising and swirling in the cold air and there are no memory threads to be found. My brain certainly had a dramatic way of translating the classic “the reading/future is cloudy” schtick of old. Quieting down my mind again, I continue with the next object reading.

The impression from the third article of clothing, part of a shoe, is very faint, but I can capture one fleeting thought, “I’m glad that Marnie couldn’t come with me. She has little sailing experience and I’d feel awful if something happened to her. Damn squall. Psycept speaking, end of impression. I am not even able to get a glimpse of Marnie from the person’s mind. No prior memories arose, but I can say that the mind voice is male. I’m sorry I cannot get more; the person’s mind is very chaotic and hazy.” What I didn’t say is that the article was too light in sentimentality to carry me to the heavier thoughts. The mind lake is slow to appear, and the memory thread is a gossamer very short ribbon with this as the only memory on it.

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