OLDER
CONTACT ME
DIARYLAND
2005-05-07 - 12:21 p.m.
"Just when you think you know someone they go and pull something like this." I said while rummaging through Parker's closets.
"Who did what now?" Nikki asked from the doorway. "I believe he is still upset about Mary throwing in her lot with Cyrus. He sees it as a betrayal of sorts, and any betrayal will always affect a man in this way." "Thank you for summing up my current set of problems into two sentences. I think I liked it better when you didn't talk so much." "Come, Nikki, we should search the other bedroom and leave Seven alone." "No Priest, you go, I'll stay here with Seven." She knelt down beside the bed and started pulling books out from under it. "As you wish, alert me if you find what you are looking for." And The Priest turned and walked out of the room. "So, you want to talk about it?" She looked at me, eyes pleading. "What is there to talk about? The girl I came here to rescue still needs rescuing along with the girl who brought me here to help. I've gotten my ass kicked twice and been drugged within the past few days. I got you kidnapped and God know what else they did to you while I was unconscious. The only person helping us at this point isn't quite all there in the head and isn't what he claims to be. I let out a long sigh and slumped against the wall. "He is all there in the head and he never claimed to be what he is. The man is not crazy; he's not even a man actually. And he never claimed to be a priest, people made him that." I stared at here incredulously. "Let's get back to the part about him not even being a man. Explain that." "The Priest is a hero. Not in the conventional sense of like a war hero or something. He's more like a Greek myth type hero. The closest I can come to an easy explanation is that he is a bogatyr; it's a Russian term, a hero of the people, a folk legend more or less. As long as people believe in him he will exist. The more that people believe in him the stronger he is and the more he can do." "So what about the past he told me about?" "All of that is real. A bogatyr is a real person changed into something extraordinary by certain circumstances. The war was The Priest's circumstances and now he is more than he was." The Priest just kind of appeared at the door and said, "Seven, Nikki, I believe I have found what we are looking for. There is a guitar case and several boxes with a number seven on them in closet in the other bedroom." "Great, we'll load it into the car and get to whatever secret place you have in mind Priest." He nodded and turned back to the other bedroom.
