Sam Sawyer Chapter Thirteen
By rayjones
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Sam Sawyer
Chapter Thirteen
Like a gnat plastered
to the front of a freight train he and Kathy rushed through the darkness as the
speck became a tiny blue dot. Blue dot? The image wriggled in his mind like a
worm trying to eat its way to out of an apple. More white specks slowly emerged
from the darkness-stars. Earth. Home. Was he leaving the Mezzanine? No. It was
here, always here, a bubble of newly minted reality wedged between two worlds.
The truth flooded his mind, settling in taking root becoming an old memory just
as familiar and established as his own name, even more so.
Kathy sidled
up beside him, nestled under his right arm. Her mind now harmonized with his.
They embraced, no longer fixated on the illusion of moving. For they had never
went anywhere…
A treeless crater
pond now lay forty feet in the ground where his forest once stood, a phasing
footprint, that would prove to all, even the most mentally calcified skeptics
that ‘it’ was all real. The old myths the new sightings had finally taken their
rightful place in the sunlit world of reality. Now all could see or rightfully expect
to see the world in its entirety. Yet there were still secrets, two of them
named Sam and Kathy…
Sam had just
scooped out a perfectly round chunk of reality and made it his own. Some would
call it the act of a god others a Satanic curse. He and Kathy would simply call
it home. For them the vast forest was the same. The darkness dissipated like a
fog in the burning sunlight and they found themselves standing hand in hand on
the springy pine-straw carpet healed and unenlightened. They smiled up at the brilliant
sunlight streaming through treetops. Feeling like Adam and Eve fresh from God as
they surveyed the forest with new eyes eager to explore their new reality. Golden
haze adorned the sagging branches granting them a Heavenly aura.
Birds
chirped happily overhead, so far as they could tell, unfazed by the phasing. A
familiar distortion made her way down a bark encrusted pine tower. Sam heard it
crunch under her heels just before she dug them in and back flipped right in front
of them.
“What did
you do?” Kit said as her cloak of invisibility fell away like a literal sheet.
Sam reached
out and gently grasped her right shoulder, “Needed, thought, made, learned,”
his answer was as simple as it was unfathomable.
“Oh,” Kit chin
nodded yes, her eyes said no.
Kathy
stepped away from Sam and embraced Kit. “We are safe here. That is all you need
to know now.”
“Too bad we
can’t stay here.” Sam injected taking Kathy’s hand as he spoke. “But we can
return, come and go as we please and so can you Kit.”
“Yeah,” she
said pulling away from him without knowing it.
“Kit it’s
still me, us.” Kathy said, her eyes softening as she spoke.
Kit raised
her hands as if fending off an attack, “I know but, all this is, even more than
I can handle right now. Give me a minute. That giant shape shifter, I’ve seen
that before, not that specific shifter, but others like him, but this, this
it’s goin’ change everything. I can feel it. I mean, how can it not?”
“Yeah,” Sam stroked
his chin, knowing they were near the center of the forest, meaning the
repercussions were about a half mile away. “Sunlight can come here.”
“But nothing
else?” Kit asked.
Sam was
pleased to hear hopefulness in her voice. “Like I said we’re safe, but I fear I
just put the world in a really bad place, a very unsafe place.”
“We forced a
lot of hands,” Kathy replied.
Sam looked
at her, “maybe we were supposed to do just that. Funny how that shape shifter
just showed up and almost killed you Kathy.”
Kit swung toward
Sam, “Hey I didn’t know…”
“I know Kit,
not blaming you. But Oloran did. That sphere the Nordics had me in, I bet is
was another bubble universe, just like this one, ‘cept under the ocean. A toe
to toe between me and the Nordics, that’s what Oloran wants.”
Kathy
stepped away and took another look around, “This world belongs to you,” she grunted,
“to us. But maybe not just this world, but the Earth too.”
“That’s
exactly what Oloran told me,” Sam replied, “The world belongs to you. They want
me to take the Earth.”
“Away from
the Nordics?” Kit asked, the fear in her heart beginning to bleed through her
features.
“Away from
everybody Kit.” Sam said glumly. “I’m their weapon, their surrogate. They see
through my eyes, feel through my body. The want the Earth and they think they
can get it through me. The more I defend myself and those close to me, the more
I do their bidding.”
“But they
don’t control you, do they?” Kathy asked, drawing back a bit, as she spoke.
“No, I don’t
feel controlled but definitely manipulated. That’s a snare I don’t know how to
free myself from.”
“Guess it
all boils down to what they really want.” Sam mused aloud. “I don’t want to be
the God of this world, but I fear that’s exactly what they want.”
“Maybe
that’s a good thing Sam,” Kathy said, her tone betraying her false hope.
Sam smiled
weakly, shaking his head. “They are not benevolent beings. I do know that. All I can do is do what’s
right, just don’t think I possess that can of wisdom and restraint, yet.”
“We’ll help
you Sam.” Kathy said taking back his hand.
“Yeah Sam.”
Kit chimed in, “We’ll help you anyway we can.
Sam reached
out to her as she sidled under his arm. “Wonder what’s going on out there, no
doubt, lots of military types have showed up, doing what they do, hiding the
truth from the public, well- meaning but not necessarily the right thing to do.
That should help us though. We need, I need, to go out their and see for
myself.”
“We go with
you,” Kathy said looking at Kit as she spoke and smiling when she saw Kit
nodding in agreement.
It was Sam
rolling his eyes this time, “I don’t know.”
“Sam we’re are
linked,” Kathy insisted, “maybe you shouldn’t have saved me, maybe I was
supposed to die in that garage that night. You saved me. You changed me. It
simply is what it is. I’m in now.”
Sam sighed,
his face a perfect picture of reluctant resignation.
“I’m in
too.” Kit quickly added.
“No Kit,
you’re a kid…”
“I was a kid
Sam, but we both know I’m not a kid anymore, not sure what I am, but my childhood
ended a long time ago. They took it. I owe them for that. Helping you is how I pay
them back.”
Sam shrugged,
“You’re right. I need both of you. If for nothing more than knocking me down a
peg or two when my ego starts to swell.”
The girls
smiled at each other, “Oh we can do that,” they said in unison.
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I'm so glad Sam has the
I'm so glad Sam has the support of Kit and Kate, he's certainly going to need it.
Jenny.
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Hi ray,
Hi ray,
yes, I'm enjoying your story immensely and I like how you leave chapters on a cliff hanger.
By the way I don't find it deep or weird. I sometimes wonder if our minds are being controlled by a higher being...but then we wouldn't know what thoughts were our own or what were being planted, or by who. I know it sounds far fetched, but these days with so much technology anything is possible.
You keep writing and I'll keep reading when I can.
Jenny.
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