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to Brady who is now on the rock bed. Brady looks down shocked at the damage endured by Renfield. “What is he?” He snaps out of the thought and they move higher up, and Renfield is again gone, drawing these strange things away from their position. Brady wonders, “Why? Why don’t we just bomb this place if he knows where it is?” He suspects Renfield knows the answer and snaps back into action to get everyone to keep climbing. The whole time, looking back at Renfield. He sees him pick up rocks that could not be lifted by a hundred men as he smashes them into the enemy. He then notices something odd. Renfield seems to disappear and re-appear in different places. “How?” Brady thinks? “Who is Christina, what is his plan and why does it seem like he really has done this before?” Then Renfield is beside him, not just battered but torn asunder.
“Explain what you are?” The detective quietly asks.
Barely able to breathe, yet again, Renfield explains. “I’m not alone. As those who know me pass on they have a choice. They pass on their ‘thing’ to me or I take away what ails them. They all know I am bound by my promise to accept either fate. They all know if I accept what ails them, I have to store that forever and it means I will eventually cease to be. Some choose to share themselves and some lead me closer to my ultimate fate. I don’t get to choose. That’s the other side of how all of this began. Did I mention it’s complicated?”
“I can’t even ask those guys to treat you right now. If they saw you, they would not understand why you’re alive. Not that I do, but I’m starting to accept it. Why?” Brady looking frustrated stands and paces for a moment than looks back at Adam, “For her?”, he shouts at Adam while pointing to Chirstina.
“You keep digging, that’s why you’re a detective” Renfield tries to smile. “She is the mother. She has to live. All of you are here based on a lot of learning time after time, but this is my last time, so it has to work.”
“What does? What’s going on, this is getting... Damnit, I’m not going to say the word, but, please just tell me!”
And yet, as he turns he notices Renfield was completely unconscious. Brady realizes that even if Renfield had heard the query he probably would not have answered. If he had he would have explained that it was complicated.
CHAPTER 18
“I was neither the beginning nor the end, but I was.” -- from the book of Christina
“I’m sorry, two more valleys to get past. I’m, good. You should have been moving me while I was out.”
“Stop! I heard you mutter the words, ‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.’ You know what this is so well for a reason. You created it. Now you are making amends for it, but you’re moving people’s fates to stop it. I know you’ve done this over and over and you’ve failed. What gives you the right to keep trying?”
“Brady, there is not one of us here that doesn’t want the same thing. This needs to end and I know no one remembers why, but there is an echo from the other ‘you’s’ in all of you. We should be at the summit of this mound by now, why didn’t you move me?”
“Renfield, you were dead. I saw it, we all saw it. I picked up the line to call in a strafing operation, but Christina stayed my hand. She said I should believe, because I’m your friend, as you predicted. She doesn’t know what to think of you, but I know a man on a mission when I see one. Did you create this ‘thing ‘we are struggling against? That you are struggling against so hard that you come back from death?”
“Yes and no, it’s…”
“Complicated? Break it down. How did this start? If we’re going to win, we need to know what we’re up against.”
“Understood”, said Renfield and Brady’s eyes widened. Clearly he had once been a brother. “It was a
“Explain what you are?” The detective quietly asks.
Barely able to breathe, yet again, Renfield explains. “I’m not alone. As those who know me pass on they have a choice. They pass on their ‘thing’ to me or I take away what ails them. They all know I am bound by my promise to accept either fate. They all know if I accept what ails them, I have to store that forever and it means I will eventually cease to be. Some choose to share themselves and some lead me closer to my ultimate fate. I don’t get to choose. That’s the other side of how all of this began. Did I mention it’s complicated?”
“I can’t even ask those guys to treat you right now. If they saw you, they would not understand why you’re alive. Not that I do, but I’m starting to accept it. Why?” Brady looking frustrated stands and paces for a moment than looks back at Adam, “For her?”, he shouts at Adam while pointing to Chirstina.
“You keep digging, that’s why you’re a detective” Renfield tries to smile. “She is the mother. She has to live. All of you are here based on a lot of learning time after time, but this is my last time, so it has to work.”
“What does? What’s going on, this is getting... Damnit, I’m not going to say the word, but, please just tell me!”
And yet, as he turns he notices Renfield was completely unconscious. Brady realizes that even if Renfield had heard the query he probably would not have answered. If he had he would have explained that it was complicated.
CHAPTER 18
“I was neither the beginning nor the end, but I was.” -- from the book of Christina
“I’m sorry, two more valleys to get past. I’m, good. You should have been moving me while I was out.”
“Stop! I heard you mutter the words, ‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.’ You know what this is so well for a reason. You created it. Now you are making amends for it, but you’re moving people’s fates to stop it. I know you’ve done this over and over and you’ve failed. What gives you the right to keep trying?”
“Brady, there is not one of us here that doesn’t want the same thing. This needs to end and I know no one remembers why, but there is an echo from the other ‘you’s’ in all of you. We should be at the summit of this mound by now, why didn’t you move me?”
“Renfield, you were dead. I saw it, we all saw it. I picked up the line to call in a strafing operation, but Christina stayed my hand. She said I should believe, because I’m your friend, as you predicted. She doesn’t know what to think of you, but I know a man on a mission when I see one. Did you create this ‘thing ‘we are struggling against? That you are struggling against so hard that you come back from death?”
“Yes and no, it’s…”
“Complicated? Break it down. How did this start? If we’re going to win, we need to know what we’re up against.”
“Understood”, said Renfield and Brady’s eyes widened. Clearly he had once been a brother. “It was a
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