Post by StoryGirl83 on Sept 30, 2008 23:10:32 GMT -5
Chapter Ten - Personal Gain and Saving Innocents
Future – Saturday, May 29, 2027
Wyatt and Chris stood outside their apartment door. In Chris arms was a small stack of papers. On top of the papers was a disk.
Wyatt turned his key in the lock. “You know we could just orb in.”
Chris frowned at Wyatt. “Where do I even begin on that? Personal gain. Risk of exposing magic. Don’t suggest that. Orbing is for emergencies only. Didn’t you learn anything while we were without our orbing powers?”
Wyatt unlocked the door and pushed it open. “Only that I never want to be in that position, again.” He walked in and turned right into the living room at the doorway.
Chris followed him, but only long enough to put the papers he was carrying on the coffee table. He then went back into the hall, turned right, and walked until he reached his room, the third and last door on the left. He opened the door and quickly glanced around before entering, a habit he had formed since he had been ambushed there over four months previous. Even with the passage of time, it still bothered him that he had been caught unawares. He walked over to the desk on the left side of the room, just past the door and unplugged his laptop.
In the front room Wyatt was spreading the photo copies over the coffee table. He picked up one sheet of paper and started reading it to himself.
Chris walked into the room carrying his laptop. “Find anything useful?”
Wyatt looked up from the paper and shook his head. “Nothing I didn’t see the first six times I read it. I don’t get it, if this girl had lived out her normal life, she would have been nearly seventy by now, but I can’t help but think of her as a little girl.”
“Probably because, she still is a little girl. Karma, Sunny, and all the others are no older than whenever they were taken. Now, that’s fine for the people taken three months ago, but some of them are going to be awfully hard to explain once we find them.” Chris set his laptop down on the table and sat down on the floor next to it. He turned it on and looked at his brother. “Ready to find this demon and take him down?
Wyatt grinned at Chris. “Yeah. I want these people out of his clutches.”