SUNCATCHER by Alia Gee

Author:Alia Gee [Gee, Alia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction : Science Fiction - Adventure
ISBN: 9781626468184
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
Published: 2014-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty Four

--Dots and Dashes--

Radicand let herself quietly into her room. Charlie was still asleep, but she wanted to be here when her friend woke up.

Jones sat at her desk and pulled out her gloves. She might as well do some minor data crunching while she waited. Her link was not as smooth as yesterday afternoon—but then, she had slept much better last night. It was just as well; she knew she had to be careful not to fall asleep while goggling. The balance between reality and aether was tricky for a conscious brain to maintain. The more tired she was the smoother the connection, but the greater the risk her mind would forget which body actually mattered. She shuddered to think what monsters a dreaming mind might conjure, if it fell asleep while walking the aether.

Her private library’s walls were sketchy outlines superimposed on her own sparse quarters, and other ghosts were occasionally visible past them, their movements jerky enough to be distracting. Still, goggling was quicker than staring at her cuff and waiting for its tiny processor to compile the data she needed, and much more fun, besides.

She dismissed the East Santos servers as inviolate—and oh, what she wouldn’t give for a backdoor there!—but she might as well wish for the moon. No, she needed to start small, from a different direction. Perhaps change the nature of the question entirely.

She had been thinking about this Ezekiel character; Charlie had been following him, after all, he must be interesting. She searched the aether, looking for hints to his whereabouts. This was easier than she expected, since the man had a small but loyal following, and they updated his itinerary so the faithful could attend his revival meetings wherever they might be held.

She collected the data on his movements in the last nine months in her hands; it appeared as a small translucent golden ball. She yanked a large map down from where it had been rolled up along the ceiling of one library wall, and tossed the ball against it. A golden trail wandered up and down the eastern seaboard, dipped into Mexico and returned. She tapped her teeth, and then ran a search looking for odd events that occurred within a week before and after Ezekiel Croft’s revival meetings. It was a vague request, but her algorithms were strong.

The ball of data that formed in her hands now was an olive color. She threw it at the map, and it sank in. Briefly the map flickered, and then a green and sludgy shadow formed along the golden road. She rubbed her temples, and then touched a town in West Virginia. Her hand reached into the map and plucked the city and its data out of the metadata around it. It formed a clear crystal ball, with swirling golden and olive fog inside and she rolled it across the clean white sheet of paper on her desk.

The colors briefly coalesced in shimmering images above her desk—a golden prophet, gesticulating;

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