Myth Gods Tech - Omnibus Edition: Science Fiction Meets Greek Mythology In The God Complex Universe by George Saoulidis
Authors: George Saoulidis
car keys.
“ Yeah, before someone sees us. Wait for me three blocks down,”
I said, and went around the back to find the priest.
Chapter
38
“ Where the
hell are you guys?” I said on the phone, sweat dripping down my
face, my hair a mess.
“ I had a suspicion I was being followed,” Billy said and gave
me new directions.
I
sighed, leaned my head down and kept on walking in the summer
heat.
I found
the van and got in, putting the air-condition on ‘freeze me’.
“Where’s your love interest,” I asked Billy who was in the driver’s
seat. He stared at me with wide eyes and shook his head.
“ What took you so long,” Deppy asked from the back of the van.
I looked back through the hole in the van’s wall, and saw her on
Prodromos’ computer, checking out her stuff.
“ Look who fits right at home in the Scooby gang,” I said
pointing at her. “I was giving a police statement, that’s what took
so long.”
“ What?” Billy yelped and pulled my face towards him. “Why did
you do that?”
“ I put on my scared little girl act, which isn’t really that
hard, cause I’m a girl, and kinda little, and scared right now, and
I brought the priest to see the body.”
“ I’m still waiting for the reasonable answer to my question,”
Billy said seriously.
“ I told the police that I saw two men running away. And I gave
the description of the two guys that were following us downtown,” I
said calmly.
“ OK. That’s… Kinda clever,” my tall friend said, gears
spinning in his head. “I doubt that her death will show up as
anything other than natural causes, or a heart attack, but this
will help take those guys off our back. If only they weren’t so
inconspicuous…”
I
mouthed silently, pointing at Deppy. “What’s she doing?”
“ She’s going through Prodromos’ research.”
“ I’m going through Prodromos’ research,” Deppy said with her
squeaky voice, tapping away at the keyboard.
I
squeezed myself through the hole and went to the back of the van. I
caught a glimpse of Billy checking out my ass, but then he gathered
himself into the perfect gentleman again and stared straight
forward.
I sat on
the floor of the van and compared notes with Deppy.
“ Well, what Prodromos told you was true.” Deppy waved a hand
around. “Not the churchy stuff, the rest of it. I can see many
cases of the same thing all over the city, these Erinyes appearing
in photos, people acting strangely, persecution syndrome, the
works. It has reached a cult-status online, I mean, sheesh, there
are hundreds of discussions online about Erinyes and what they
are.” She pursed her lips. “It’s a classic case of creepypasta, I
expect a movie coming out about them in less than a
year.”
I
slammed my fist on the side of the door and yelled at her, “And how
does that help me?”
She
stood shocked, staring at my face.
I kept
banging my fist on the metal, annotating every sentence. “And. How.
Does. That. Keep. Me. Alive.” I sat back down and held my hand to
my chest. It was hurting.
She
managed a few words, “I’m, ah. I just looked into it, I need more
time…”
“ I measure my life ,” I snarled, spitting out the words, “in a-hundred-and-nine
minute parts. I can’t sleep properly, everything hurts, nobody can
see this thing chasing me, and now,” I gulped. “And now, the only
person who seemed to know anything about it is dead. Dead because
the stupid kariola thought God would save her, so she just sat
there and let Erinyes take her.”
The back
of the van opened and Billy stepped in, bowing down to fit in and
closing it behind him. He put his hand on my shoulder.
I sagged
and cried in his arms.
Deppy
sat next to me and hugged me.
“ I’m sorry,” I sniffed.
“ It’s OK,” Deppy said. “We’ll figure it out.”
I let it
all out for a few minutes. Deppy gave me a paper tissue from her
purse and I blew my nose into it.
“ I look like a mess,” I said,
“ Yeah, before someone sees us. Wait for me three blocks down,”
I said, and went around the back to find the priest.
Chapter
38
“ Where the
hell are you guys?” I said on the phone, sweat dripping down my
face, my hair a mess.
“ I had a suspicion I was being followed,” Billy said and gave
me new directions.
I
sighed, leaned my head down and kept on walking in the summer
heat.
I found
the van and got in, putting the air-condition on ‘freeze me’.
“Where’s your love interest,” I asked Billy who was in the driver’s
seat. He stared at me with wide eyes and shook his head.
“ What took you so long,” Deppy asked from the back of the van.
I looked back through the hole in the van’s wall, and saw her on
Prodromos’ computer, checking out her stuff.
“ Look who fits right at home in the Scooby gang,” I said
pointing at her. “I was giving a police statement, that’s what took
so long.”
“ What?” Billy yelped and pulled my face towards him. “Why did
you do that?”
“ I put on my scared little girl act, which isn’t really that
hard, cause I’m a girl, and kinda little, and scared right now, and
I brought the priest to see the body.”
“ I’m still waiting for the reasonable answer to my question,”
Billy said seriously.
“ I told the police that I saw two men running away. And I gave
the description of the two guys that were following us downtown,” I
said calmly.
“ OK. That’s… Kinda clever,” my tall friend said, gears
spinning in his head. “I doubt that her death will show up as
anything other than natural causes, or a heart attack, but this
will help take those guys off our back. If only they weren’t so
inconspicuous…”
I
mouthed silently, pointing at Deppy. “What’s she doing?”
“ She’s going through Prodromos’ research.”
“ I’m going through Prodromos’ research,” Deppy said with her
squeaky voice, tapping away at the keyboard.
I
squeezed myself through the hole and went to the back of the van. I
caught a glimpse of Billy checking out my ass, but then he gathered
himself into the perfect gentleman again and stared straight
forward.
I sat on
the floor of the van and compared notes with Deppy.
“ Well, what Prodromos told you was true.” Deppy waved a hand
around. “Not the churchy stuff, the rest of it. I can see many
cases of the same thing all over the city, these Erinyes appearing
in photos, people acting strangely, persecution syndrome, the
works. It has reached a cult-status online, I mean, sheesh, there
are hundreds of discussions online about Erinyes and what they
are.” She pursed her lips. “It’s a classic case of creepypasta, I
expect a movie coming out about them in less than a
year.”
I
slammed my fist on the side of the door and yelled at her, “And how
does that help me?”
She
stood shocked, staring at my face.
I kept
banging my fist on the metal, annotating every sentence. “And. How.
Does. That. Keep. Me. Alive.” I sat back down and held my hand to
my chest. It was hurting.
She
managed a few words, “I’m, ah. I just looked into it, I need more
time…”
“ I measure my life ,” I snarled, spitting out the words, “in a-hundred-and-nine
minute parts. I can’t sleep properly, everything hurts, nobody can
see this thing chasing me, and now,” I gulped. “And now, the only
person who seemed to know anything about it is dead. Dead because
the stupid kariola thought God would save her, so she just sat
there and let Erinyes take her.”
The back
of the van opened and Billy stepped in, bowing down to fit in and
closing it behind him. He put his hand on my shoulder.
I sagged
and cried in his arms.
Deppy
sat next to me and hugged me.
“ I’m sorry,” I sniffed.
“ It’s OK,” Deppy said. “We’ll figure it out.”
I let it
all out for a few minutes. Deppy gave me a paper tissue from her
purse and I blew my nose into it.
“ I look like a mess,” I said,