The Nightworld - Jack Blaine [61]
“That’s what you said an hour ago.”
“This time I promise.”
When she’s gone, I make a note of the combination I’ve just tried on the device. All three buttons at once, then the left one, then the left and the right together. That combination produced the largest area of illumination yet. There’s a puzzle I have to solve, and I’m no scientist, so I don’t know if I can. But if I do, I think there’s a chance my father’s device might be an answer to end the darkness. I think that’s what he was trying to tell me. He played some part, no matter how unwittingly, in how all of this began, and he died before he could try to end it. I know he was smart, brilliant even. He could have fixed this, and I think that he was on his way to doing so with this device before he was killed. And this has become my mission, my obsession. I have to figure out how to destroy the dark.
And so I try one more combination of buttons, just one more, on my father’s device.
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The Nightworld
Copyright © 2011 by Jack Blaine
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