Lily watched the scene unfolding in horror as he put another bullet in Jason’s skull.
Timur then approached a park bench to the east of the fountain. He curiously held up the small object he had picked up. Lily recognized it immediately. It was the mini R2D2 thumb drive she had seen plugged into Timur’s earpiece projector when she came to present her morning report several days before.
“No wonder he was acting so strange that morning.” She shook her head in disgust as the vision faded and another one took its place.
Timur still sat on the park bench. The sky had turned a dark blue as sunlight peeked over the horizon.
“Jason?”
Lily spun around in surprise when she heard Allan’s familiar voice.
Timur stood. “I’m afraid Jason won’t be joining us today.”
“Mister Demyan?” Allan stammered. “I thought we were meeting in a few hours.”
“I’m afraid we’ll have to postpone that.”
Timur raised his handgun. “No!” Lily cried.
Allan threw up his hands and staggered backwards, “Wha...”
“What else did Jason tell you?”
“He didn’t... didn’t tell me... didn’t tell me anything.”
“I don’t like people who lie to me.” Timur hissed.
“All he said... he said that one of my clients... you?”
“That’s what I was afraid of.” Timur sighed and aimed his handgun. “It’s a shame I have to kill you now.”
“Wait!” Allan cried, too late. The bullet pierced his chest and his body was thrown violently to the concrete.
Tears streamed down Lily’s cheeks as she realized that Allan had likely been dead for a week. Commander Arlington had informed her that Allan was their primary suspect for Jason’s murder. Now she knew the truth. Timur had killed them both, and had likely dragged Allan’s body away. She turned her eyes away and sobbed against Tiamat’s scaly chest.
Alas, I doth understand. ‘Twas thine companion. Thine sorrows are mine as well.
Lily cringed as she heard several more bullets dislodge from Timur’s gun.
“Impossible!” Timur shrieked.
She heard Timur pop off several more rounds, followed by the audible click of unsuccessful attempts.
Confused, she turned to face the scene again. To her amazement, Allan was sitting up on the concrete, a silver bubble of light surrounding him. Allan then opened his eyes as well, and the aura of light dissipated, sending the full round of spinning bullets clacking to the ground. Allan appeared to be breathing normally again, and his wounds miraculously healed.
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“How is this even possible?” Lily stammered.
Timur tossed the gun and raised one arm toward the rising sun and aimed the other at Allan. The green glow of his eyes burned brighter, and a beam of white light burst from his extended fist. Allan shrieked in pain with the searing of his flesh.
But then an aura of silver light ballooned around Allan, shielding him from the inferno. Allan stopped screaming, and Timur shrieked in rage.
The blinding light from Timur’s fist petered out, and he raised both hands high in the air. All around them, shadows stretched and grew ominously. Several tentacles reached out from a shadow next to Allan and grabbed him by his ankles.
Allan kicked and screamed in terror as the tentacles dragged him into the heart of the shadow. Seconds later, Timur disappeared.
The vision faded from Lily’s mind. Tiamat stood by her side as she stared at the police tape that cordoned off the section of sidewalk where the scene had taken place.
Lily shook her head in confusion. “What just happened?”
Verily, I doth suspect this Allan art the Final Seraph. Only Seraphim have powers to avert death while they are commissioned as a Guardian.
Lily did a double-take. “So you’re telling me that my boyfriend is supposed to somehow go up against Timur and save the world? I’m sorry, but I’m having a hard time imagining that.”
Verily, but didst thou ever imagine that one day thou would become an Oracle and see visions of the past, present and future?
“Good point.” She nodded. “We need to get to Timur’s penthouse. I need to see what’s on that thumb drive.”
Lily remounted Tiamat’s saddle, and they were airborne. They had no sooner arrived on the balcony of Timur’s penthouse when Lily found herself enveloped in another vision. Dawn was breaking across the sky, and Timur sat at his patio table with the familiar thumb drive sticking out of his earpiece projector.
A surveillance video was projecting onto the far wall. The video portrayed Timur aiming his gun at a man who Lily recognized immediately. It was NSA Agent Michael Thornton, who had gone missing several years ago.
“But I did everything you asked!” Michael held his hands above his head in surrender, “I presented your blueprints as my own, and they took the bait! We’re in the Beta testing stage now!”
“Yes, you served your purpose well.” Timur cocked the gun. “But I can’t take any chances. I’ve worked too hard for this. Letting you live is too much of a risk.” He fired.
Michael’s body spun from the force of the bullet. The projection went blank, and the look on Timur’s face betrayed how disturbed he was by the fact that this video had come to the surface.
“So that’s his big secret!” Lily slapped her forehead as the vision faded away. “Timur developed the GFID Nano technology and cunningly tricked the NSA into disbursing it to the public! But why? What’s his motive?”
I know not what thou dost mean by jee-eff eye-dee tek knowledge.
“Sorry. GFID is an acronym for Gamma-Ray Frequency Identification.”
Alas, I doth understand thee now. Yea, the gamma ray ‘tis the same method by which the great transportation machines doth use to communicate with the beacons.
Lily’s eyebrows raised. “That can’t just be an ironic coincidence.”
Another vision swept over Lily. She was still in the penthouse, only it was daytime. A loud humming emanated from within. She turned to see a steady stream of blue light coursing from inside the penthouse to a giant blue orb connected to the building’s main spire. From there, millions of lightning bolts shot across the sky toward unknown destinations.
A loud murmur of screams and chaos rose up from the streets below. She looked over the balcony just in time to see a woman get hit with one of the many bolts of light, and then she vanished into thin air.
“Holy… he’s reconfigured the machine to lock onto human GFID signatures instead of beacons!” Lily cried, panic lacing her voice. “We have to stop him!”
Something whizzed past her ear, and she felt Tiamat jolt. An elephant tranquilizer had embedded itself in Tiamat’s thick skin. Tiamat staggered, and fell over.
“Tiamat!” Lily screamed.
Several hooded men surrounded them with guns drawn.
“Lillian Thatcher,” one of them said, “we won’t have to hurt you if you cooperate. Please come with us.”
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