Incarnations of Immortality
By The Bear!
Disclaimer: See Prologue
Somewhere
in
A
man stood before a desk. There was a
chair there, but he had not been invited to sit, and- given his failure to
acquire what the man behind the desk wanted- he didn’t want to press his luck.
The
man behind the desk looked with icy contempt at the flunky before him.
“I gave you a simple assignment. I
told you where they were staying, and what they were doing here in
The
man tried to defend himself, “They haven’t been there since the first day of
the conference. They had someone
else check them out of their rooms, and they haven’t been back.
They missed their flight out of
The
man behind the desk raised his voice only slightly, “Do you think you are
telling me anything I don’t already know?
If I wanted an explanation for your incompetence, I would have asked for
one. The only thing I want from you
is their present location. Until you
have that, you have nothing I want.” He
leaned forward slightly in his chair and said in a more normal tone of voice,
“Now, I suggest you find out where they are.
Do it quickly, or I will find someone else to replace you.”
The threat of permanent replacement was unspoken, yet clearly
communicated.
The
man spun around on his heel and left the room.
Another
man, older stepped out of the shadows in the corner of the room and sat before
the desk. “Good help is hard to
find, but if you keep killing them off, you’ll make it even harder.”
The
man behind the desk was not amused. “You
were supposed to be my backup. Your
daughter is partnered with the ones who were chaperoning these two, and you are
no more help to me than he was!” he growled, indicating the man who had just
left the room.
“My
daughter… has chosen this time for one of her inconvenient little ‘I’m a
grown woman, quit trying to tell me how to run my life’ temper tantrums.”