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The following podcast
is a work of fiction.
All characters are the creationof Peter Williams.
Any resemblance to someoneliving or dead is purely
coincidental.
Thank you.
So close and yet so far.
But that's how the cookiecrumbles, isn't it, silas, as
your plans are ruined, butanother takes shape in its place
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.
And Alex, how many close callsare you going to have?
It seems you are determined tomeet your fate at the hands of
darkness.
Lastly, harmony Henry is introuble.
Now, what?
How can you help?
I guess we'll find out, butbefore we do, let me remind you
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that this podcast does containimages of graphic violence,
child endangerment and naughty,salty language.
Now please grab your tentaclesonce again for this Tuesday romp
as we go from graveyard torooms In Chapter 15, silas on
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the move.
As angry as silas was, he wascareful upon returning to his
private quarters at the seminary, smiling at his students as he
crossed the grounds, evenstopping to pet a stray cat that
hung out near the dining hallhoping for scraps.
When he finally reached hisroom, he looked side to side and
then secured his door Quickly.
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He undid his tie and loosenedhis shirt before grabbing the
black robes he needed for theceremony.
Then he closed his closet,pulled the handle and stormed
into the sequestered room,grabbing the vial of black blood
.
In haste, he poured it into thestagnant pool, chanting of
black blood.
And haste he poured it into thestagnant pool, chanting Once
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more, a purple glow began toshimmer in the liquid and a bony
face stared at him from deepwithin the mixture.
Speak, silas.
I'm asked why.
Why has someone defeated myplans?
I was.
I was what Silas About to claimthe girl, to beguile the woman?
Yes, she is close to fallingfor me and that will open up an
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opportunity to gain her, thegirl you covet.
Silas, while your intentionsare in line with my own, I need
you for another task with my own.
I need you for another task,master.
He stared unbelieving at thepool.
You will be summoned to fetchJonah soon.
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Malus continued how do you?
Because Mark is sending a verydistinct message to them right
now and Jonah wants revenge fromMaggie, and Jonah wants revenge
from Maggie.
Silas finished the sentenceCorrect.
Be prepared, silas.
Malus demanded yes, master.
Oh, and Silas, I may need youfor something else in the very
near future.
Malus added Of course, master,anything you need?
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Silas replied Good, remembercourse, master.
Anything you need?
Silas replied Good, rememberyou said that when the time
comes.
The pool went dark and Silasrose and closed up the
compartment.
When he heard a knock at hisdoor, causing him to jump One
moment, he called out andquickly eyed the room around him
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making sure it had no hint ofduplicity.
Opening the door, he was metwith the dour face of Secretary
Fritz.
Secretary, how nice, pleasecome in.
Sorry, silas, I have no timefor niceties.
Fritz replied in his usualmonotone manner.
Oh, my apologies.
Silas replied how may I serveyou?
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Come, the bishop needs you athis office.
Understood, closing his door,silas follows the secretary
across the campus.
Maelis knew how what hadhappened that had the secretary
in such a fuss.
Bishop Brock had an equallystern look on his face as he
motioned Silas to have a seat inone of the two red leather
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chairs.
Bishop Silas inquired BishopBrock.
Rose closed the curtainscovering the French doors and
turned on a projection camera.
We just received these imagesfrom the Thomas residence.
Silas pushed back in his seat.
Through a blood-stained lens hecould see the torn body of Rose
, a pool of blood around herlegs and torso.
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We lost connection.
Just after this moment thebishop said we don't know the
fate of Diaz or those of thebrave police officers that were
sent to the scene, he added.
Secretary Fritz enhanced theimage and Bishop Brock continued
the head on that abominationwas the only piece left on Henry
Thomas after Ikiatsu haddestroyed his faux family for
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heresy.
That man standing next to himwas also believed to be dead.
Claire, the wife of Henry, hadkilled Mark during her autopsy.
Interesting, is she a zombie orsomething?
Silas asked, pretending not toknow.
The bishop paused.
I would have thought you hadknown more about this case,
silas.
Aren't you counseling theKuchmo woman?
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I am bishop.
And she never brought up anyoneexcept Master Jonah, chief
Donaldson and that WarrenStevens fellow.
The bishop tossed him the fileon the Thomas family.
Review it and get to know them.
Claire was a faux human, a husk, as they referred to it.
Unfortunately for them, shemaintained some of her human
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emotions and tried to create herown family.
Oh, he said, feigningembarrassment.
Mark, the man pictured here, webelieve, is the one who killed
Jonah's messenger Maggie.
Mark, the man pictured here, webelieve, is the one who killed
Jonah's messenger Maggie, andyou want me to fetch him and let
Jonah know it was exactly ashis master had expected.
Actually, no, silas, we don'tthink that's a good idea.
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The bishop replied Then.
Silas was now concerned andconfused.
What do you wish me to do?
He was nervous.
He began to suspect that theywere sending him to the Thomas
Residence.
That would work against his andhis master's needs.
The secretary brought up adifferent location on the screen
, a cemetery.
This cemetery is just outsideof Montgomery.
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We want you to go there and seeif you can track that monster.
We suspect that he it used aportal on the other side of the
city.
Good, he thought this would buyhim some time Understood.
When do you need me to go?
The bishop opened his deskdrawer and handed Secretary
Fritz a blindfold.
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A blindfold.
Silas inquired yes, only fivepeople know of the gate we're
sending you through and as ofnow we're not adding to that
number.
The gate at the cemetery iswell known and when you're ready
to return home, go to theThomas residence and we'll bring
you home from there.
Silas was very unhappy aboutbeing blindfolded, but he knew
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he couldn't object.
There was no grounds for him todo so.
He'd have to use his sense ofhearing and smell to try to
figure out this guarded location.
He was led by the secretaryacross campus.
He could feel the cobblestonepath beneath his feet.
Several scents caught hisattention and finally they
stopped.
Stand here, the secretary saidCan I?
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He never finished asking thequestion, silas felt a whoosh of
air and the scents and soundschanged around him.
He removed the blindfold and hewas in a cemetery, standing in
front of a mausoleum.
He scanned his surroundings.
On the one side of the stonefence, a wood ran down into the
hillside and eventually to therising bluffs.
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In front of him was an irongate with two stone columns.
Beyond that was a slopinghillside and eventually to the
rising bluffs.
In front of him was an irongate with two stone columns.
Beyond that was a slopinghillside that ran along a deep
ravine and a river.
Finally, sitting by itself, wasa small cottage.
It was dark and it lookedunoccupied, except a bicycle lay
in the dirt just in front ofthe small house.
He recognized it immediately itbelonged to Alex Kuchma.
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Well, well, well, isn't thatinteresting?
Something else caught hisattention, a presence.
He couldn't see it, but felt it.
He was being watched.
This unnerved him.
Usually he was the one sneaking, spying.
But I'm not welcome here, hemuttered to himself.
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But he couldn't just leave.
He approached a bicycle andlooked at the sneaker prints.
They went from the bike to thedoor and from the door to the
cemetery.
Did Alex go through the samegate he had?
If so, when?
Curse his luck.
He must have just missed her.
He looked back at the cemetery.
If he tried to use the gate,would it take him to where Alex
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is?
Or perhaps he could get back tothe tower?
After all, he did have the key.
The question would be, ofcourse, why he didn't follow his
instructions.
Why did he go after Alex?
Or why, after being told not to, he went to get Jonah?
Then he remembered Jonah'sdemands.
I'll let him make excuses forme, he said to himself with a
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glee and turned and went back tothe mausoleum.
He approached the door and heldup the key and Nothing.
No glow, no entrance, nofalling stars, just a mausoleum.
He grumbled.
Maybe I need to be closer.
He climbed the steps.
He could see the slot where theEos Deletion had been used to
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open it previously.
The slot was shimmering.
Now, maybe, if he put the keynear the slot and felt the shock
that sent him backwards, wasthe gate rejecting him.
Why Was it?
Because it was already in use.
Then why was he able tomanifest here?
He frowned, turned back to thecottage.
That same presence that he feltbefore was everywhere.
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Now he had to leave.
Before it figured him out, hehad to go.
He looked at Alex's bike justlying there, shrugged and said
why not?
He climbed on it, rang the bellLook at me, I'm Alex Kuchma.
He was trying to be silly, totoss off whatever presence had
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enveloped the area.
Then he turned towards the dirtroad.
He would need to head to theother gate, the one that Henry
had come through, the one thatHenry would probably return to
after sending his message.
If I can't use this gate, hethought to himself, maybe I can
use that one.
Otherwise, he sped down thehill and pedaled as fast as he
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could.
Silas had been right, of course.
Only a few hours earlier, alexKujma, with the help of Sam, had
left the cottage and enteredthe cemetery.
Alex climbed back up and out ofthe hidden basement and closed
the table.
She laid the sword above themantle.
As she figured out a way shecould carry it while riding her
bicycle back to town.
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She wondered what types oflooks that would bring.
She thought, smiling to herself, sam.
The sword suddenly glowedintensely, alex.
She called yes, I'm here, sam,we need to go and go now.
Sam sounded concerned.
What's going on, alex said, asshe gave up on trying to make a
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makeshift hilt.
Something dangerous has Alextake me to the cemetery?
We must go, we must go now.
Alex grabbed her hilt and thesword was pulsing.
What's going on, sam?
I need to know.
Alex pried further.
I'm going to take you throughthe gate, the gate to the Thomas
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residence.
Our true horror has manifestedthere, and Will it affect my
memories like it did the lasttime Alex asked her?
No, sam replied.
The last time you went through,you didn't have me.
Oh.
Alex paused and then asked whatwill I do when I get there?
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I mean, I've had some trainingand I can use martial arts, but
Do you remember how I told youthat Warren's grandfather had
attached part of himself to me,to the sword?
Yes, he will guide you, he willput an image into your mind and
his thoughts will become yourown and your own actions.
I'm not sure I'm comfortablewith that.
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Alex retorted it was bad enoughthat she was now connected
spiritually to the sword and Sam, but now, now she would need to
surrender her will to somestrange man.
Unfortunately, I am just ablade, alex.
I may have a spirit andpersonality, but I can't teach
you how to use me.
Great Come, we must hurry.
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Rich Donaldson is in trouble.
Harmony lost her connection toHenry and turned her face
towards the sirens, the Thomasresonance.
If something had come throughthat gate and Henry Leslie,
harmony called out and the girlcame from out of the kitchen.
What's up, boss?
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You're in charge.
I'll be back as soon aspossible, are you okay?
No, she replied as she grabbedher keys and ran to her car.
The black Shelby Mustang withthe green Hydra on the hood
roared to life.
Come on, medusa, she said to itaffectionately as she checked
her mirrors and slammed on thegas.
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The police will have by nowquarantined the house, maybe
even gone in.
How will she?
Someone on a bike crossed herpath and her jaw nearly dropped.
That's Alex's bike and thatmotherfucker Silas, where are
you headed?
If he spotted her and theShelby, she wouldn't be able to
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follow, damn it.
And if she followed him, shewouldn't be able to help Henry.
Word helped me, she grumbled asshe turned to Shelby in the
direction she saw Silas go.
She would have to trust theothers to help Henry.
She'd have to hope that Rich,alex Diaz and Rose could handle
whatever had gone wrong.
She would also have to dosomething she promised herself
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she'd never do again.
Noting Silas' general direction, she pulled over and under an
underpass Luckily it was quietStepping out of her car, she
disrobed, bit her lip and tookher succubus form.
The wings tore through her backand she rose up into the sky.
The sunlight hurt.
In this form, sunlight was anenemy, not something to enjoy,
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but In this form, sunlight wasan enemy, not something to enjoy
, but I'll endure it.
I must find out what he's up to.
She angled her body and herwings and she aimed herself in
the direction she had seen Silasgo.
She'd be able to find himeasily.
In this form, she knew hisscent.
Perhaps it was a good thingthat Silas had tried to be
flirtatious with her and withthat she was on her way
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Someplace she had never been,someplace almost everyone did
avoid Henry had told her aboutit the ruined home of Tim Rogers
.
Movements like music.
Stories are told in movements.
In this case, alex, as we know,is on her way to the Thomas
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residence, silas to Tim's oldstomping grounds and Harmony.
What are you planning to do ifyou catch Silas as we turn to
chapter 16, and never the threeshall meet.