The Servant-45
The large flat TV screen in the Michelangelo Cupola Suite showed a still scene of the Elizabethtown Fair zoomed on Clark’s face.
– “There, look! He’s concentrating!” Katsu said, pointing at the screen.
Greene, Hoskins and Katz moved closer to the screen.
Katsu forwarded the tape and then paused again. “And here, look how he stared directly into the other two’s eyes before they went down.”
– “What happened to them?” Katz asked. “How’s possible they’re seeing everything upside down?”
Katsu shook his head as if disgusted by the stupidity of the question. “Wil, the images formed in our retinas are upside-down. We’re all see things upside-down. It’s the optic part of our brain that make them right-side-up.”
– “What does that mean?” Hoskins asked, “He can manipulated the atoms and molecules? How?”
– “No, more likely, he can manipulate electromagnetic waves. That and a complete knowledge of human parts and their function could allow him to manipulate the body cells.” Greene said.
– “Using electromagnetic waves, he can shifted the cells inside your body, interrupt your synapses or damage them and cause their dysfunction.” Katsu said.
Greene nodded. “Vic, you were right. The ‘virtual thing’ from wherever must be that domestic. He appeared in Elizabethtown approximately after the LHC experiment.”
– “A parallel universe?” Hoskins said.
– “A what?” Katz was now less confident about himself and his crew. If that freak can do what those scientists were saying, he didn’t want any part of it no matter what amount of money were offered.
Katsu detected fear in Katz’s voice. “Relax Wil. We can deal with him. My theory was right. The more you interact with someone else, the more your waves get blurred. You and the cameramen are still here, right? Had he been able to connect those gangsters’ waves with any of you, you would be in a hospital right now with God knows what symptoms.”
– “You forgot his possible speed and strength, Vic. How do you plan to force him to do anything for us?” Greene said.
Katsu sat down on the couch and smiled. “Richard, think about it. We know the girl who found him when he tunneled through the brane and mostly, we know his weakness.”
Hoskins’ eyebrows narrowed. “We do? I mean what’s his weakness?”
Katsu picked up the remote, forwarded the tape to a point and paused. The flat screen showed Clark holding Maggie in his arm.
Hoskins looked at Greene. “You’re not thinking—”
Katsu interrupted him. “Richard, Steve. We’re talking about the Theory Of Everything here and not about what might happen to a few persons among six billion.”
There was a long pause in the room.
– “Wil, you got a problem with any of this?” Katsu asked.
Katz shrugged. “Doesn’t matter to me as long as you’re sure you know how to deal with that thing.”
– “I’ve already called Pierre, CERN’s director. He’s a good friend of mine and we’ve already arranged for another LHC experiment next Friday. A call from Richard or myself and Pierre would press the button.”
– “So what’s the plan?” Greene said.
Katsu leaned forward and opened the folder containing Katz’s reports. “Okay. We take them all. Charlize, Amina, Lindiwe and Maggie and keep them at four different locations. Each of us will be at each location. No matter where we hide them, he will be able to follow their waves but he had to chose who he wants to save. The person who saves you or the person you love the most?
[Chapter to be finished…]