Read The Inheritors Chapter 11 – Lucifer
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Note: the reason for “XXX” is I’m not sure exactly where this goes in the timeline. Some chapters may get shifted. I’ve learned to live with such things.
Resa heard a tapping. She looked around. Sand. Trees up on a rise. Moon.
Something else. There had been something else. She was sure of it.
The tapping came again. From the hatch. In the ground. She’d come here through that hatch. A Librarian waited for her there.
She lifted the hatch. Bertrand’s eyes flashed at her in the cold moonlight. “I must return soon.”
“Bertrand, did you hear anything up here before you opened the hatch?”
“No. I can hear line-of-sight only or when something is hot enough to be seen.”
“Of course, sorry. The other Thinker who caused the disturbance in the Labyrinth, was his name Thomas Ayers?”
“No, it was ‘Tommy Ayers’. If he had other names I do not know.”
“Show me what he looked like, please.”
An image formed on each of the Librarian’s eyes. The air quavered a foot in front of him as he built on the optic thermals until his eyes cooled and the images spun like a slow hologram in the vibrating air.
“Yes, that’s him. That’s Thomas Ayers. Tommy. Thank you, Bertrand.”
“I must return, Resa.”
“You go back, Bertrand. I’ll find my way back. Right now I want to think. I’ll be back before I’m needed in the Neuroscaphe tomorrow. I promise.”
The Librarian closed the hatch. She reached over and opened it again. “Bertrand?”
The Librarian’s pale, hairless, babe-like head and pulsing eyes poked up through again. “Yes, Resa?”
“You can see after images, can’t you, when something’s hot enough?”
“Yes, Resa.”
“Can you see anything here?”
“No, Resa.”
“Are you sure? I think…I thought…someone was here, something which produced enough heat to keep me warm in the night.”
“No, Resa. Who do you think it was?”
She hesitated. “I thought it was the Christian Devil.”
“I would not be able to see it, real or not, Resa.”
Resa focused on Bertrand’s eyes, looking to see if the Librarian joked or not. “What do you mean, you wouldn’t be able to see him, real or not?”
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