Chapter 20 (part 1)
The Netherworlds Show Up Again!
Chapter 20 (part 1)
The Netherworlds Show Up Again!
first part of chapter 20
… a week or so after the first all night long encounter ...
No it was not over. Not even close. It would still try to close in. It hadn't quit. Both the netherworld’s and the 'street's' zeal for a kill were still alive and well.
Within a week an IT contract offer in downtown SF surfaces, city government office, downtown off Market. Really low level programming stuff. I had worked on this system back in '91 so I figured it would be a breeze.
The city employee who interviewed me (I remembered him from ‘91 - nice guy too) after telling me that I would be hired - and wishing me good luck - just looked at me and just sort of snickered. And a diabolical snicker it was! It was just like one of those characters in those kid’s cartoons. The evil ones, like Snidely Whiplash's dog Muttley.
IT WAS THEN THAT I BEGAN TO SUSPECT …
And sure enough, on the first day's Cal Rail commute up from the peninsula to the job site my skin just started crawling.
SOMETHING 'LEGION' WAS AFOOT.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE!
It was even worse while walking from the train station to the office - up 4th and down Mission. And even worse once inside the office!
SOMETIMES EVEN OUR OWN SOULS JUST WANT TO CRAWL OUT OF OUR LIVES!
Skin and all! And for no other reason than to avoid an upcoming experience of horrific proportions. An infernal attack, which only THEY can see coming … because only THEY know what darkness there lurks.
But our simple everyday human minds can't or won't grasp it, because our simple everyday human minds can't even remember simple things like who we were in our last lives.
AND THEY WERE THERE!
(that's how dumb our everyday minds ...)
And so we're left to suffer quietly the residual inner preternatural terror of knowing that
OUR OWN SOULS JUST WANT TO 'BAIL'
without the luxury of ever knowing exactly why. Hard to explain … even harder to endure.
I WAS NOW SWIMMING RIGHT IN THE STUFF !!!