Banished To Earth Book Two, Ravaged Earth (33)

Banished To Earth Book Two,  Ravaged Earth

Chapter 61

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    They jumped back. Delighted, but a bit put off by Pry’s sudden reversal. She was back. But where was Davin? She did say his name.

   “Pry?” Silhouette asked. “Do you sense Davin?”

   A silent smile was Pry’s only response. Lifting from all over her head, draining yellow for white, Pry’s beautiful long hair revived as blinding white light streamed from every pore until she disappeared in an explosion bright and fierce, knocking them to their knees. 

    Crumbling to the floor, their strength drained from their bodies as Pry mindlessly absorbed their energy.

  Terrified and blind, they crawled away from her, managing to kick the balcony doors shut just before they lost consciousness. While they lay, pale and limp on her bedroom floor, Davin was claiming his prize.  

    Pry stood on Davin’s beach locked snugly in his arms. His sweat dripping on her shoulders, her hair soaking it up, not to quench its thirst but to see to his needs.

   They kissed, long and hard. A warm balmy sea breeze played tag with her hair. Some time later, they parted. Pry whipped open a shift portal, and they stepped onto the balcony.

    Hand in hand with Davin, she reached out with her free hand and opened the balcony doors. They were still out.

    Pry dropped to her knees and stroked Tucker’s head. Davin tried to do the same to Silhouette but his hand passed right through her.

   “I’m guessing they can’t see me either, my turn to play ghost, huh, not surprised.”

   “I see you Davin. That is enough for now.”

   A low groan came up from the floor. Silhouette was coming to. “I, ah , ooh, don’t see you. You still dead? Or something? ”

  “Or something.” Davin answered.

   She did not hear him.

  “He said. ‘or something.”

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  “Thank you ghost whisperer. Sounds just like him.”

    “Tucker is still unconscious.”

  “Yeah I see that, next time a heads up would be nice.”

   “I lifted my head. Did you not see?”

  “Oh, I saw alright. He gonna be okay?”

  Tucker groaned, “What was that?” He asked pushing himself up to a sitting position.

      “Davin is here!” Pry said, looking over at him, still dressed in his ‘dream trunks’. “Can you change?”

    “Into what?” Tucker answered groggily, still recovering from Pry’s explosive return.

    “Don’t think she was asking you.” Silhouette said through a mischievous grin.

    “What, then who?”

   “Seems Davin’s a ghost now. Pry can hear him and see him,”

   Pry broke in as she reached out and took Davin’s hand, “and touch him.” She said through a smile.

     “Okay, and touch him, but nobody else. I know. It’s sounds like a sixties sit-com. But…” She looked around the room.

   Tucker struggled to his feet, “Are you sure Pry. I mean…”

   “You do not believe me?”

     Silhouette was standing now, “I believe her. There is no way she could have come back to us without some outside help. Dead is as outside as you can get. Besides, she’s a friggin vampire psychic immortal alien girl. Ghosts? Kinda old hat, don’t you think?”

     He shrugged, “Something sure happened. I’ll happily take what I can get. We almost lost you, vampire alien girl. If you say Davin is standing right beside you I believe you.”

  “Do you?”

   “I believe what I see and I see you, happy and well. And I saw you explode in a ball of light. So yeah, something big, happened.”

  “I know a little girl who wants to see you too.” Sil said as they followed her downstairs.

   A short time later they stepped through the front door. Trudy and Beth sat rocking, watching Nikki chase butterflies across the lawn.

    The door squeaked, Nikki looked up and squealed “Davin!”

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    “She sees him.” Said Sil to Tucker.

   He looked back at Pry who was standing behind him and looking up at nothing.

    Nikki raced up the steps pushed through Tucker and Silhouette and threw her little arms around Davin and ended up hugging herself. She squealed with delight. “Are you a ghost?”

   Shocked, then relieved he smiled down at her and said, ’Yes’.

   “So, when ‘ya gonna get your body back?”

  “Beth and Trudy just stared at one another, then looked over at Pry. Rainbows again dancing in her lively shimmering white hair.

    “What is this?” Beth asked rising from her chair, as she stood and searched the porch for any sign of Davin. “Baby, Davin’s not here.”

   “Oh yes he is.”

    Davin kneeled and spoke softly into Nikki’s right ear. “Pry sees me, you see me, must be a kid thing, but they can’t, so give them a little time, okay?”

   “Okay, I will.”

  “Honey Davin’s…”

   “Here.” Silhouette said finishing Beth’s sentence. “Really. I can’t see him either but. Something big and weird happened on the balcony. He’s back, sort of, back. No kidding.” She glanced over at Tucker he nodded in agreement.

    Trudy rose and went to Pry, “You’re alive again, you’re Pry again.” She pushed past Tucker, who expelled a low painful grunt, and wrapped her arms around her.

   “When are you goin’ to get your body back?” Nikki asked yet again, as kids are prone to do. “I want to hug you too.”

   “I,” Davin paused, “We’re working on it…”

    

      Another round table of sorts happened later that morning. During which Davin shared every salient detail of his time on the Urgis ship. They were of course shocked.

    The grim news that Pry had been identified and targeted by the heartless invaders hit especially hard and resulted in yet another heated debate, on how to proceed…

   “We will not use you as bait Pry.” Tucker insisted.

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   “And I will not hide here like a coward, while you risk everything for me!”

     While they argued Davin left. Pry, so engrossed in their argument did not notice. With no effort, other than will, he rose straight up passed through the ceiling, the upstairs bedroom and the roof.

     After realizing he was never really walking on the floor, but hovering, as he mimicked walking out of habit and not necessity, he thought he might be able to do a lot more than hover. He was right…

    The morning sun did not shine on him but through him. He stared straight into it without squinting. He was extra-dimensional, whatever that meant.

     Determined to find out, he looked down and saw the roof, yard, garden, corral and barn, surrounding woods and of course the great oak. Everything looked normal, even though he was not. He had already discovered two advantages of his new state, surely there was more…

    The blue transit portal pulsing up from the oak, bypassing time and space as it bore through everywhere and every when, caught his attention. A shiver went through him, as he studied it from on high. He’d stay away from it. He was not sure why.

    It was then he thought it might be a good idea to fly down and check out the barrier. Moments later he sidled up to it, tried to push his fingers through and found he could not. It may as well have been a brick wall. He tried again, with the same result.

    His short foray into his own little spirit realm had yielded some interesting information, information they all needed to know.

     He swooped down, passed through shingle wood and nail as though they were made of smoke and, much to his surprise, bore straight into Pry. She was, after all, his magnet as he was her iron filings, eternally linked by invisible irresistible forces.

     She jolted back as if shocked, or something else, something deeply personal. Embarrassed by his unannounced intrusion, she yelled at him, “Davin stop it! Get out or, or get back!”

   He did. “I’m sorry Pry, didn’t know I could do that, wasn’t even trying to, it just happened. I was just so excited.” He said bobbing beside her, like an over inflated balloon.

   No one said anything. Pry’s reaction could have been intimate. They did not want to go there.

    “I can fly,” He quickly said, trying to deflect her anger.

    “What!” She spun toward him. “What do you mean you can fly.”

  “Through matter, solid objects, ceilings, walls, even you!”

   Silhouette, grinning and choking back a giggle, spoke, “Share, Pry.”

   “Think I have shared enough.”

  “What just happened?” Trudy took up Sil’s question. “What is he saying to you?”

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   “He says he can fly. In fact, he just flew right into me.” she paused letting him tell her more, “He says he can fly through walls, but not through the barrier.” She paused again. “He wants to go back inside,” She blushed, “inside me and see if he can penetrate the barrier through me.” Pausing again, “He thinks he can be a scout or spy, but only if he can find a way to go outside.”

    “And you’re his magic key?” Beth asked.

  “That is what he wants to find out.”

   Tucker glanced over at Pry. “Hate to say it, but that sounds like a really good idea. But once you leave….”

   “I know. But we must do something. It could well be that he cannot pass through the barrier anyway, but we must try.”

    Nikki as usual was sitting half swallowed by the couch, piped up. “But I don’t want you to leave Davin. Pry you’re all well, can’t you just stay here with me.”

   She stood up and walked over to the little moppet. “I want to Nikki,” She said, taking a seat beside her, you know that. Other people need us. There might be other little girls just like you, who are not safe. They have no home, no Mommie and Daddy to take care of them. They are waiting for us to come and save them. I know you want that.  Do you not?”

   She nodded her little head.

   “Can you stay in the house with your Mommie and Trudy, while we go outside.”

   “I can help.” Nikkie was whining again. Beth cupped the back of her head, “If you really want to help you’ll be a good girl and stay with me inside. What if I get scared?”

    “Oooh, I hadn’t thought about that. I’ll protect you Mommie, won’t let nothing bad happen to you.”

    “Thank you baby.”
 

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        “I went inside you Pry,” Davin said as they followed Tucker and Silhouette down the red brick steps.

   “Do not remind me. I did not expect that. You, ah, uh,  scared me.”

   The others pretended to ignore Pry ‘talking to herself’, but it was like listening to a telephone conversation, all one sided and frustratingly hard to parse out what was really being said.

    Again, they chose to walk, rather than shift, wanting to soak up the morning sun and put off messing with the barrier, for as long as possible.

    The sun was warm again. Same sun, same warmth, only because it was still just the same temporal illusion. The same mystery and threat waiting for them, taunting them just inches away.

   Just before they reached the barrier, Davin asked Pry to stop. She knew what was about to happen. Stopping as she held her arms out, obviously inviting him in, she whispered ,”I am ready.”

   “Are we going to witness a possession?” Silhouette asked.

  Pry tossed her a tired look, just before Davin stepped into her, careful to ease in, not dive in as before. She looked around and did not see him.

  “Did you do it?” She asked while still looking.

   “You can’t see me Pry.”

  “No, I cannot. Nor do I feel you.”

   “You lied Pry.”

   “What?”

  “You knew Chase wanted my body, but you pushed that away, pretended he didn’t when you knew he did. But it’s still there.  I can almost see it. The guilt the shame. Please let it go. It is eating you from the inside.”

    Pry hung her head.

  “I said too much Pry. It just popped out. If I think it. You hear it. Got to learn to control my thoughts.”

 

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 “It is true. I wanted you so badly. I lied to myself. That lie killed you. Please forgive me.”

   “Do I sound dead to you?”

   “Well, your soul is inside me, so….”

  “Of course I forgive you. Now please stop hating yourself for being human. You want what you want, maybe a little too much but that’s okay.”

    “So. wanting too much is human?”

    “Oh, yeah.”

   Tucker and Silhouette grunted at each other they were clearly growing tired of suffering through awkward, private moments, with these two.

   “We, good?” Tucker asked.

   Pry grinned up at him, her hair somehow shone even whiter in the gleaming sunrise

   “Yes we are good. And we are ready.”

   Moments later Pry reached out and easily pushed her entire arm through the barrier and just as easily retrieved it.

    “I think it worked Pry.” Davin’s voice rang in her head just as clear as her own.

    “I need to step all the way through.”

   “No, not yet.” Tucker said, “We don’t know if we can step back in, once we’re out. And I know you have some serious goodbyes to pass out, before you leave.”

   She smiled, nodding yes.