Emergence 3.0
A Novel – One Page Per Day
Day 023, Tuesday
January 23rd, 2018
Chapter Two: Connected
Kathy was with him, locked onto him. She was looking through his eyes
for the first time ever, she was sharing his consciousness, even as he got into
his car and drove away.
Kathy could bond this way with anyone, at any time, but never before
with Jim.
He was unique.
Of all the people she had ever met, Jim alone was a mystery to her. In
that moment she became connected to him, she felt his deep despair.
It frightened her.
She would never have guessed that he was afflicted with such powerful
emotions. He was so very cool, and calm. He always appeared collected.
Never once in all their years of talking, never once did he let his
composure slip. Jim was the epitome of self-control.
She followed him as he drove across town in his black vintage car, the
Ford Galaxy. She soaked up all the things he was looking at, the objects, the
people, the cars moving on the freeway.
She was barely in touch with him in that time. Kathy was not able to
merge with the flow of his thinking, if he was thinking at all. She could not
penetrate his memories.
She was merely seeing the world through his eyes, experiencing it
thorough his senses, and feeling the powerful emotions emanating from deep
inside him.
She was still with him when he parked his car at the airport, when he
pulled his stylish briefcase from the trunk. She was still following him when
he used some mysterious credentials to bypass every point of security and
breeze through the gates.
He boarded a plane ahead of every other person. He sat alone in the
first class cabin after stowing his briefcase beneath the seat.
She sensed a calm returning to him, as she did she felt her connection
to Jim become untenable. She could not hold it any longer.
She was tuned out.
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