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innocently to
security, trying not raise suspicions and not to stare at the
countdown on my watch.
    I was
fidgeting with the security card in my pocket that I had swiped
from Dave. Teenager or not, I wasn’t an idiot. I wouldn’t endanger
my dad and his work for some crazy conspiracy nut who wanted to
break in, no matter how spot on he seemed to be about most of this
stuff. Family comes first. Prodromos had gotten in contact with me
because she needed something from me, not because she was my
friend. People on a crusade tend to get others in trouble. If I was
gonna help get to the bottom of this, my father would not be
involved. Besides, my dad was in the Marketing Department. His card
accessing the R&D department late at night would raise
suspicions, whereas a card from the R&D itself doing another
sleepless night just before a major product launch would make more
sense.
    My phone
chimed and I got a message from Prodromos. It read, “I’m going to
the house of God, He will protect me. I suggest you do the
same.”

Purple
time
     
    I barely
turned around the corner of the building when she appeared out the
wall. Her nails passed right next to my face and I ducked to avoid
her. I ran through the parking lot, hoping not to see anyone there.
She came beside me, around the cars, her face puzzled, as if
deciding on a car sale.
    I looked around and saw the tip of a church. It was too far
away but I ran towards it anyway. Along the way was a small park,
women with little children having a stroll. I ran between them,
narrowly avoiding one little boy with a bicycle. The Erinyes came
behind me and stopped.
    I stopped too.
    My face was contorted in fear. A few of the mothers were
watching me puzzled. The little boy was getting on his bike’s seat
again and preparing to move away.
    I bit my lip.
    Getawaygetawaygetaway.
    The boy was taking forever. The Erinyes leaned down to its
level but her eyes were drilling deep into mine.
    Her hand moved over the boy’s head, and her purple hair moved
in a wave and engulfed it.
    I lost my breath.
    Like a wave crashing on the shore, her hair pulled in the boy
and it was gone.
    I screamed. Let him go! He’ll drown. Let him go!
    The mothers moved in, one to protect her son from me, the
other to pull her own back away. They were moving through thick
water, too slow to do anything. Too slow.
    The boy’s head managed to get out of the drowning hair for a
second and I gasped in hope.
    Then he was gone again.
    Just like my little brother.

Chapter
37
     
    “ I didn’t
know Prodromos was a woman,” Deppy said, her high-pitched voice
echoing in the church.
    “ I assumed it was a man at first, when I told you about his
messages,” I said, sitting on the pews. My face was in a perfect
bulldog impersonation, cheeks dripping on the sides.
    “ What do we do?” Billy said, rubbing the back of his head,
towering over the body.
    We were
in a large church at another part of the city. Prodromos, her body,
was lying under the cross in the middle section of the church. Her
face was pale, contorted into a horrid mask of fear.
    She was
dead.
    A few of
the candleholders were knocked over. The carpet was ruffled in the
end. Other than that, it was peaceful.
    We had
located the church with the help of Deppy. I had no clue of half
the things she had said, but she had managed to locate Prodromos
and lead us to the church. Were we’d found her dead. Right after an
Erinyes attack, and right after her message saying God will protect
her.
    If that
ain’t a kick in the guts, I don’t know what is.
    “ Nothing,” I said. “You don’t do nothing.” I leaned close to
her body, tiptoeing and with the edges of my fingers went into her
pocket. I winced. A bit of vomit was coming out. Being near a dead
body makes your primal fears ding-dong in high alert. I fished out
her car keys and passed them to Billy. “You two get out of here, I
call in the police anonymously.”
    “ Are you sure?” Billy asked, taking the