OLDER
CONTACT ME
DIARYLAND
2005-06-01 - 2:46 p.m.
It didn't take us long to load everything into the car and get on our way. Any of the boxes that weren't books or papers of some kind got left behind, narrowing their numbers from twelve to four. I don't even remember having four boxes of this stuff, but my memory was never the best.
"How long will it take us to get to this secret place of your's?" Nikki tossed The Priest the keys to her car. "It should not take us long. I thank you for trusting me to drive your car, Nikki." "No problem, just be a little more gentle with her than you were back there." She laughed at her own joke, a nervous kind of laugh; trying to break the tension and not succeeding. The Priest grunted as he got into the driver's seat and started the car, Nikki rode shotgun, and I sat in the back with my guitar case and tried to think of some kind of plan. Companionable silence filled the car while The Priest navigated the back roads and access ways that would take us to his 'secret place', until Nikki jumped into the seat next to me. "So what's in the case?" She rapped her knuckles on the case's hard shell. "It can't be a bass, it's too heavy. If it were more books you would have put it in the trunk with the rest of them; so it has to be something important." "It's just a guitar case Nikki." "If it were just a guitar case then you wouldn't have made such a big deal about making sure we had it. There is more to this simple guitar case than you're telling me." "Nikki, please leave Seven be. He will reveal all in due time. "No, I will not leave him be. There is a serious lack of information going on here and I'm on the receiving end of it. I don't know how they do things where you come from but where I'm from we tend to share the information involved with things like this." She glared at me and I turned away. Don't look away from me Seven; tell me what is really going on here." "Don't yell at The Priest. He's as lost as you are." I turned as looker her straight in the eye. "What are you talking about? He has to know more than I do about this, because I don't seem to know anything about it." "No Nikki, you know more than he does. You know that we came here to rescue Mary; you know that Cyrus is running some kind of cult in this town; you know that Cyrus wants me dead because he thinks I'm part of some prophecy. He knows what he's been told; you've been inside my head. You know more than he does. "Just because I've been in your head doesn't mean I know everything you know. The learning spell only exchanges information that I concentrate on; it gave me your fighting knowledge and gave you my magical knowledge. I only know what I've been through and been told; I don't know anymore because I've been in your head. Just then the car slid to a stop in a gravel parking lot outside of an abandoned truck stop. "We are here. I will unload the car; you two go inside."
