Free Encompassing by Richard Lord

theory someone else had about a theory I had.  It wouldn’t be had I not given the answer to the query.  I trusted people to know right from wrong and I never imagined that a thought I had on just one topic would ever be used.  Basically, I put it in story form so it could be understood.  If God were to have created man what would motivate man to move if he could not die.  If man could die what would motivate him to try to live.  At the end of the story Adam sees Eve and runs after her because the answer to the riddle God put inside them.  At least the concept of God did.”
    “So Adam, you?  And Christina is Eve?” Brady said quietly.
    “She is, but she hates that before knowing after knowing, while trying to understand and then…when… she loves so deep it…”
    “Relax, I’d say you’d pull a stitch but we didn’t sew you up.  You were dead, Adam.  We all saw it.  How do you explain that?”
    “We need to move, we’re behind schedule.”
    “Again!  Can I hate you and love you as a friend, Adam Renfield?”  Brady looks at Renfield and then around at the expanse of sand, rocks and carvings that ancient rivers had once created.
    “As you wish.  As long as you wish we were already doing it at the next rock.”  Adam replies.
    “We call them cliffs, mesas and a few other words, we don’t call everything a rock, just to be clear.  I know what you mean.  We move now.  Wait, can YOU move now?”
    “Of course, I could outrun you all there!”  Renfield grins at Brady.
    “Of course you can, Adam.  That is what I want to understand.”  Brady’s eyes narrow as he responds to Renfield’s quip.
    “In time, but let’s be over there when we talk about all of this.”  Renfield pointed at the next rock formation as he was beginning to call them in his head.  He remembered that now.

CHAPTER 19
    “Deciding to act is often harder than action and why others fail to succeed.”  -- from the book of Illumna
    Brady yells, “Adam!  Stay with me!  Adam!  Christina is here, I told her some of what you said.  She’d run from you right now if she could, but that would be illogical.  Stay with us, for her.  How many times can you get ripped to shreds like that?  It’s insane!  You got us all here safely, but we’re worried you won’t make it.  If you won’t explain it all to me, explain to her.  At least tell me what you know.  Renfield, tell us what you are.  We have to deal with this one way or the other and we’re wondering.  In case you…”
    “Sir, let me talk to him.  From what you’ve told me, I should at least get to know him.”  Christina leaned over Renfield and looked at him in doubt, but part of her wanted to know if any of it were true.  What she had seen certainly proved there was some reality to his words.  The madness she had seen over the last few days was proof of that.  She asked Renfield softly, “Why me?”
    “They’re getting smarter each time I do this, dear.  Echo memory.  It makes this harder each time.  The Queen understands echo memory.  So the faster I get the faster she gets.” Renfield responds.
    “When did I become your ‘dear’?”  Christina looks down at Adam suspiciously and a bit offended.
    “Sorry, Christina.  I have to do things differently than I did before, they’re going to come up this hill.  Sometimes we stand the ground and fight and we die here.   Sometimes we make it to the next rock formation.”
    “What happens when we make it?”  Christina asks.  Detective Brady thought it was best that she ask the more delicate questions that Renfield seems to continually avoid.
    “You and I spend a lot more time together.”  Renfield laughs weakly.  “My point is they know the same outcomes I know.  So if you want to help right now, think of a different scenario.”
    “What if I leaped off of here into them, then your ‘mother’ thing couldn’t happen.  That would change it!”
    “I don’t want to think