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for.”  Brady gestures with his hand at Renfield who is still holding the woman to himself as if the world depended on her.  “HE did run the fastest.”  Brady notes to Cavidge.
    “Yes sir.  By the way did you clock that run?  It didn’t seem normal.  Then again, nothing in the last two days has.”  Then Cavidge straightens his back as he announces to Detective Brady, “That’s why I’m going with the ‘river of Scotch’ story.”
    “Something tells me, if we live though this you’re going to get promoted!  I’ll certainly put in the word, but after all of this I don’t know if my word will be worth much.”  As he finished his sentence he glanced over at Renfield.  Renfield look up and shrugged.  Somehow Brady knew that meant Renfield was hedging his bets on a lot of factors he couldn’t even begin to imagine.

CHAPTER 16
    “Him?  Again?  He thinks of himself as a demigod stuck between being human and more.  He’s less than any and more than all.”  --  from the book of Vladimir
    “As ridiculous as it sounds, we’re going to run out of time.  Are you ready or not?”
    “He won’t like us interfering.  Your argument is sound, but somehow he always knows.”
    “If he always knew, then explain why he’s done this hundreds of times.”  She responds, watching the face of her daughter, closely, for a response.
    “Maybe it has to do with his plan.”  The daughter responds.
    “If he had a plan, why would he have to keep doing it over and over?  I don’t know.  I haven’t been with him as long as you have, but it doesn’t make sense.”  The mother shoots back.
    “It will, when he’s done.  Ask my sister.  Ask her why she draws what she does, over and over again.  Each time she gets something she didn’t before.  To you and I, all of the drawings look the same.  I see her face.  They are not the same to her.  She learns.  He does too.  They are a lot alike.  With what they can do and how it effects everything, wouldn’t you want to be sure?”
    “What are you sure of?”  The mother stops and picks at the ground then holds it up and lets it slide through her fingers.
    The daughter watches the demonstration.  She slowly walks to where she sees the sun’s current position.  Then she tilts her had back as it begins to rain and feels the rain drops on her face and body as she turns to respond.  “I know that I will do my part.  I believe I am a part.  I know that makes you angry at times.  I know you’ve accepted it in your way.  But I know that we named that”, she points towards the sun, “Sol.  We were so sure of that we named everything in it’s immediate gravity influence the Solar system.  That isn’t just a name.  That’s faith, mother.  You have faith in him too.  It’s ok.  He’s human.  He does make mistakes.  I’ve seen them time and again.  But he tries and he never gives up!”
    The mother turns to walk away, but stops and says, “He’s my husband.  I have faith in him.  I always will.  I may question him, but isn’t that my role?  I’m supposed to help him and he’s supposed to teach me.  That’s what a wife does for her husband and what a husband does for his wife.  You are my daughter, you are not his wife.”
    “I won’t disagree with you, Mother.  I am sorry.  It was fate.  One of those things he knows that he doesn’t even understand he knows.  Do you understand that?”  She turns back to the sun as the rain stops.  She begins to cross the porch back into the house they are currently living in.  She thinks to herself how many times she’s been here, but then looks at her mother and realizes she may know but she can’t understand the feeling.  She knows that to her mother, it’s just another place.  She looks at her, not with pity, but with understanding.  She walks over and gives her a hug and then points out into the distance far over a valley.  “Do you remember how you felt when you first