LiTTLE CHERiNE Book 02 - post222
I may sound like a little girl, but I really did not want to spend the night alone, just knowing he was in the house was a comfort.
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“Bwana Eddie comes today, a little later. You come to the kitchen for breakfast, I made you eggs. I am also to give you a message. There will be no attacks today. The madam has promised her husband.”
“You think she will keep her word?”
“She fears him. She will keep her word.” I did not believe it and sent another warning that they must expect an attack today.
“This power you call the healer, you can talk to it? It could talk to you before?”
“Yes.”
“Can it talk to me?”
“Why?”
“You are worried. If it cannot answer you, let it tell me and I will tell you.”
“I would like to know that my friends and family are well.”
His face impassive, as if this sort of thing happened every day, I saw him listening. “The protector, it says, will do as you ordered. It says they are all well.”
“Thank you John.”
“I do not have milk, can you drink coffee black?”
I did and enjoyed a smoke with it. We sat on the front lawn looking over the sisal and all the way to the sea. I felt relaxed and did not feel the need to fill the silence with small talk. We could see the main road below us and two jeeps came down it filled with soldiers.
John gestured. “They must be after poachers. We have a big problem with them. The government does not have the money to equip our game rangers with the guns and equipment they need. What is happening, why are they coming here?”
“Quick, hide.”
He disappeared amongst the thorny sisal. I climbed a tree and hid in the foliage. The jeeps stopped at the front of the house and the soldiers came running into the house and through, out onto the lawn. They saw the chairs and my mug. They began to search. It took all of five minutes for them to find me. They stood under me, laughing and joking amongst themselves. Their officer came and looked up.
“Climb down or we will shoot.”
“What do you want. I have not done anything.”
“We have our orders. Come down.”
As I started to climb down I saw all the rifles were pointing at me. I jumped the last bit and landed on my feet. As I steadied myself, the guns less than a metre away from me, the officer shouted something and all the guns went off. I was thrown up against the tree and collapsed. I had been hit in the heart also and hardly had time to know what was happening before I found myself fading into darkness.
I did not go to the void. As far as I can recall, nothing happened. I came to and felt my heart beating. An elderly face, big ears and fleshy nose, a short dirty white beard and very blue eyes staring at me from close up were the first things I saw.
“Humph! You’ll live. Was it my wife?”
“I…I don’t know.”
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“Of course it was.” He grunted as he got off his knees. He stood staring off into the distance and suddenly Doris was there. Not a projection, she was actually there in flesh. She was terrified as he coldly told her, “You broke my word, made a liar of me.”
“Eddie, I had to. They were going to kill me.”
“You are lying! I have lived in his mind longer than you have even known of him. He has never intended killing you. It does not matter, what does matter is that you have dishonoured me. I gave my word you would not attack today. At least he had the common sense not to trust me and ordered his family to be on the lookout for an attack.”
I kept silent. This was between the two of them. I felt uncomfortable in clothes soggy and sticky with my blood. I wondered, had my healer succeeded in saving me or had it been Eddie?
I saw John come out of hiding. Eddie turned on him, his anger very evident. “You were supposed to protect him.”
“How? One man against fifteen soldiers with guns?”
He turned to his wife again. “Hettie, you will release him now. Take away the block.”
“But...” she took one look at his cold eyes and I felt the block disappear. Immediately I felt Cherine and our link was back. As they came into my mind they fell silent as they watched and listened through me.
Eddie turned to me and put a hand on either side of my head. “Let me into your mind. Open up.” I did so. There was too much power in this man for me to even think of refusing. I felt him do something deep within me.
“I have fixed you so that she cannot return to block you again. Go change your clothes, have a wash, I want to talk alone with my wife.”
*I have no more clothes, can you girls bring me some?* They arrived and stared in dismay at the blood and bullet holes in my clothes. I grinned at them. “I may not be a saint, but I sure get holy at times.”
They were not amused even though I thought it was one of my better lines ever. Dommi looked at Cherine and turned to me. “If those are bullet holes, how could your healer fix all that damage?”
“I think it had help. It turns out her name is Hettie, I think she must be Austrian or German. While I wash and change, take a look in my mind to see what happened, not the shooting, I mean about Eddie and Hettie.”
Of course they all searched through all my memories since I had left Greece. Cherine left the room without a word. I saw her through the window and tried to call her to return, but she ignored me.
“I am Cherine. I have come out here to tell you that if you ever hurt my Robert in any way again I will find you and kill you in the most painful way you can imagine.”
She turned around and walked back in. Only then did I see her face, white and wet with her tears. She did not want me to touch her and sat by herself, her arms around herself. Dommi went to her and pulled her into her arms. She then began to sob. “I failed him Dommi. I let her hurt him and did nothing.”
“Shh love, you had to obey him. He is our Robert, you could not go against his wishes.”
“But I let her hurt him!” As she cried she fell asleep in the arms of Dommi, as she used to do so long ago.
Half an hour later Eddie came to the door. “Would you mind all coming outside?”
I saw Cherine had woken up and realised he must have known and waited for her. I picked her up in my arms to carry her. She squirmed. “Let me go Robert. I will not let her see me like this.”
“My love, I would prefer you did. Let her see how different we are from her. Our weakness may be our love, but it is also our strength. Let her see how wonderful it is to feel so much love, do not be ashamed of it.”
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“She would only see a little girl and my threat would look silly.”
“You mean ridiculous. I think it would be even more frightening for her. To see she lost to a bunch of kids, god that must be aggravating for her.”
“You want me to come out as a baby?” Tina asked cheekily.
“You are fine just as you are. Come on girls, let’s go meet the man. I think this is going to be interesting.”
Αλέξανδρος Ζήνον Ευσταθίου
(Alexander Zenon Eustace)17th April, 2019
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Μπερδεύτηκα ο άντρας της Doris είναι καλός?
Κι αυτός κατάλαβε ότι η Doris δεν κινδυνεύει από τον Ρόμπερτ?
Αυτή δε το είχε καταλάβει?? Νομίζω ναι... Αλλά γιατί συνέχισε να τον κυνηγά?
Παντός τις δύναμης τού τις πήρε πίσω χάρις τον άνδρα της.....