The Last Observer’s First Chapter

It is short but it sets the scene…..

Chapter 1

A Dead Psychic

There was something remarkable about Michael Kent. His

crystal-clear and deep-set blue eyes, sunken into a pale and

haggard face, seemed to penetrate into the depths of your very

soul. He appeared to be capable of reaching inside of you so that

he could search through your entire contents without first having

had the courtesy to ask. Michael was a well-known psychic in

those parts. Locally famed, and at the same time loathed, for his

apparent ability to help the local constabulary solve unsolvable

crimes. Yet now he was an unsolvable crime himself.

Kent had been found dead just outside of his favorite pub, the

Rose and Crown. The back of his head caved in like a boiled egg,

and the contents of his larger-than-normal skull splattered about

the pavement. No one had seen how he had met this fate and the

local police remained stumped. Even in death, those eyes

glittered like opals as if taking in the entire world and reflecting

it back out again. His untimely death made the front page of the

local papers and had people whispering and gossiping for a few

days. Who had killed Michael Kent and why?

Edward sat reading the account of Michael’s death in an old

copy of that paper in a dimly lit and rather damp room of the

local library. Kent’s face stared out from the page and Edward felt

a strange sensation as if those eyes examined, and yes, even

judged him. For Edward, this strange and unsolved crime was

not an isolated incident but one of tens, or perhaps even

hundreds of similar murders that he had stumbled on almost by

accident. Psychics, it seemed, were dying in their droves and they

were dying strangely.

Edward leaned back in his creaky wooden chair and,

suddenly feeling as if his balance had been lost, he pushed

himself forward abruptly, attracting the disapproving looks of

his fellow library occupants. He went back over recent events

trying to convince himself that there surely couldn’t be anything

to this wave of psychic killings. However, something deep inside

told him there was.

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