The Amnesia Paradox by Noelle Greene

Author:Noelle Greene [Greene, Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Noelle Greene

Jackson whacked at branches with his machete and called her name as loud as he dared. Where the hell had she gone? She’d been right here only a couple of minutes ago. He’d been so sure she’d run into this thicket, or damn close to it.

Watching and waiting while her vital signs spiked had been the hardest thing he’d ever done. The conductive sensors woven into the dress fibers told him when her heart rate went up, when her breathing rate changed. Those columns of numbers on his screens weren’t just numbers. Not to him. Those were real-time snapshots of her fear, panic and stress as she endured God-only-knew-what. Moments that added up to hours when he should have been there to protect her. It had been almost beyond bearing to watch and wait but he’d stuck with his plan, a plan that depended upon her seizing the moment. He’d convinced himself, perhaps foolishly, that she’d be resourceful enough to seize her chance to get away. Finally, the moment had arrived…and she wasn’t fucking here.

Another possibility occurred to him. His heart stuttered to a halt. They’d taken the dress off her. She could be dead already.

No. She wasn’t. He knew it in his gut. Not from the data, though he was confident of that, too. Something else was at work here. The same mysterious connection he’d denied two nights ago when he’d paced that hospital courtyard, only to look up and find her watching him. He’d put it down to his imagination then. Now he wasn’t so sure. He and Rose were tangled up in each other, intimately bound, just like the old days. All afternoon he’d been aware of her, even fancying he experienced her reactions as if they were his own. When something happened to one of them, it affected the other. Even when apart.

Quantum physics theory held that two linked particles shared a fate, existing in a quantum state in which one particle “knows” what the other does. Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.” What if they were quantumly entangled, he and Rose? What if they were correlated across space and time?

Nah. Stress must have turned his brain to oatmeal. Particles might be quantumly entangled. Human beings? No, the logical explanation for his hypersensitivity to her had nothing to do with pseudo-science. After all, for hours now he’d been watching and monitoring her physical reactions. This perceived connection had to be merely a sympathetic response to all the data he’d gathered. Chalk it up to the power of suggestion and his own overactive imagination.

Jackson returned to the edge of the forest, acutely aware that time was running out. The camp was still in an uproar, though most had moved to follow the butterfly’s path. All eyes were on the giant butterfly that flitted overhead in its final pattern. Maybe three minutes of battery life remained, at best. As soon as the show was over, he’d be shit out of luck. And so would Rose. He needed to find her now.

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