The Alien Artifact 9 (Novelette)
his army group!
    “ The people of this country would do
better without you! ” he
shouted loudly.
    “ Yeah!” I giggled, avoiding directly
looking at him. “So why do the men mostly argue with
you? ”
    “ You ’ re not annoyed ... ” he gasped, and examined
me. “ Did
you go to the hospital? ”
    “ What hospital?” I moaned, trying to
recall what I had been doing, as I had lost a lot of
memories.
    “ The Victoria Infirmary!”
    “ Yes! ” I moaned, annoyed.
“Why?”
    “ Why what?” he replied
firmly.
    “ What do you think happened there?” I
replied, and realized that something could really have happened
there.
    I gasped and silently waited for his
reply.
    “ You tell me?”
    I shouted, “ There were hundreds of people drunk
all over the hospital wards, lying all over the floors, and
everywhere, vomiting, and throwing beer cans, and the nurses were
having a massive drink orgy! You should have seen the place! The
whole place was totally covered with people drinking and making
love with each other, and there were wild orgies everywhere
… ”
    Godfrey bent
over, holding his head in his hands, and rested his head on the
table, while moaning, and finally straightened.
    “ I was
also investigating a murder nearby!” I continued.
    “ The
whole country seems to know of you ...” he groaned. “Well, this
time I have you! A complaint was made to the police about
you!”
    Godfrey took
his official pose and sat upright studying my face, as though he
was a judge about to sentence me for a serious crime, which I would
regret, and I realized that I had to find a way out the blasted
army!
    “ Malone! You must stop that horse
running no matter what … If you don’t I’ll kick you out the
army!”
     

Chapter 18
     
    The Race
     
    For some reason I sensed something was not
right and I kept going over everything trying to grasp what.
    After I decided to stay in the army I had
paid the horse rider of my horse to lose, and we had made an
agreement, and if Godfrey’s horse lost he would be to blame, and
there would be nobody winning the bet.
    Yet something was not right, and I sensed
it, and I knew I could not do anything about it!
    When the starting gun blasted out I jumped
and was amazed at the speed and power of the horses as they raced
away and to my surprise my horse left the quickest, and I knew it
had not worked, especially when I saw the jockey smile over at
me.
    I became positive it would win when
none of the other horses got anywhere near it, and I realized how
much I had lost, and I grew furious and watched Malone’s horse with
amazement, as it was at the back of the race, and I watched the
jockey going crazy trying to get it to move, and I spotted what
looked like a glint of satisfaction on the horse ’ s face, and realized it was
the first glint of happiness I had seen on it.
    There were hundreds of people cheering my
horse, and I knew the horse I had chosen was a favorite, and the
other soldiers had known it, and that was why they had bet on it,
but I could not grasp why Godfrey had chosen his, against such
horses, and realized he was not what he made out.
    The whole place exploded with celebrations
and people drinking and cheering and I thought of the mess I was
in, and I then thought of the incredible powers I had from the
encounter with the thing in the woman’s house, after the use of the
metal detector, and I tried using them to get Godfrey’s horse to
win, and pleaded for it.
    When I stopped I looked up in surprise and
saw Godfrey’s horse speed up, and the sounds of the audience and
their cheers grew less, and I watched the other soldiers about me
see the horse and react to it, as a threat to their victory.
    I examined Godfrey’s horse and saw its eyes
had changed and were bloodthirsty, and furious, and they were on
the front horse and it looked as if it was going to attack it, and
it accelerated faster than any animal I have ever seen, and I stood
amazed when it caught up with the

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