I, Keveny - pt 21

"Sue!" Daniel said. "But she's two crackers shy of a bowl of crazy soup!"

 

"I know. Sefra had her locked away. If she got out and she's pretending to be Sefra…"

 

"But what can you do about any of that now?"

 

"I got an idea."

 

"No-no," Daniel said. "You went out there a few times already and by some retarded fluke you didn't get erased. Don't you know what that mist is? It's entropy."

 

"Okay, what does entropy mean?"

 

"It means, uhhh, well." Daniel scratched his head. "Remember The Neverending Story?"

 

"Yeah."

 

"Remember the kid had to find a new name for the princess to stop the Great Nothing?"

 

"Yeah."

 

"The Great Nothing is the same as that mist. And considering you just took a shot to the dome, I'd say your lifeline just got cut."

 

"You don't know that, though. I mean my body could still be alive. Besides, there's something else going on."

 

"I seriously doubt that as I have shot many an individual in the eye and none of them started whistling Dixie. What do you mean something else?"

 

"Look, we know a shot to the brain works, but come on—any part of the brain does the trick? Isn't motor function like in the back of the brain or something?"

 

Daniel scratched his head. "I don't know."

 

"I've got to try to get back."

 

"No, man. No." Daniel put a hand on my shoulder and squeezed. But it seemed as though it might have been out of concern even though it still hurt. "You can't. You'll be dead for good."

 

"But something is coming. For real. Once I tried to stop my body from… eating someone. I blanked out. I wasn't here and I wasn't there. It was like I was someplace that didn't exist at all, that didn't know it could exist until I came there. I came back, but I wound up bumping into

Wynn and I went back there. This time it watched me. It started to move. I think it's coming here."

 

"Here? Like here-here? Or there-here?" Daniel pointed outside."

 

"I'm not sure."