Feeling completely disoriented, I took the plane without saying goodbye to Oina. The doctors put me on some medications that would have put a whale to sleep. Staring out at the clouds through the plane’s windows, I had some very deep thoughts. I couldn’t imagine a better exit plan than the one she had elaborated on. So smart! I didn’t fully trust her when she told me that she couldn't reveal her exit plan. Deep inside me, I kept doubting her as this is the first time in my life that I really, totally allowed myself to rely on someone. I did trust her with my life, and she delivered.
I still remember my father, vaguely. Unfortunately, his image is fading away slowly as time passes. However, I still remember very well when he told me that some women are worth a thousand men.
The little guy just woke up, he seems like he is preparing himself for war…
Chapter 18
Dying Now Is a Luxury that We Can’t Afford
“You know only half of the truth...”
~ Wonfuse
W hile waiting for him at the airport’s main gate with the Services, they gave me orders to join them. They needed someone familiar with his life to make the interrogations easier. The plane arrived at 4 p.m., and I had a terrible headache mixed with nausea, I’m losing weight, and I have suicidal thoughts. I’m quitting. This may not the best moment to announce this to him, but I’m leaving tonight. Anyway, I can’t stay even if I wanted.
There he is, damn! He looks like a he got hit by a truck. Four Service agents and I went over and handcuffed him. He didn’t say a word and didn’t even look at me. At the underground parking where the van was waiting for us, I executed three of the guards, one after another. The fourth did escape, but I did wound him, so he ran heavily injured.
“ Dismar, I missed you,” he said in a very honest way. He made me feel good. Sounding very disoriented, he said that he wanted to go home. I replied that I was taking him to a safe, temporary place, under the orders of Oina.
The escape plan was through the underground’s canals. “Some changes have happened while you’ve been away,” I said.
Walking slowly, he said, “The machine is on. The First Citizen bought ONC, and Kadar is the head of the armies.”
“That’s not the worst of it, sir,” I replied.
“What do you mean?”
“You didn’t see the news yet?” I handed him a newspaper that I picked up from the ground with the photo of Wonfuse, the First Citizen, with a title under him in large print “God Among Us.” Konu stopped, his hand on his face. He went down on his knees. Stressed and shaking, he said, “I’m too late.” After a moment, he asked for a briefing on the situation.
“Sir, the situation deteriorated quickly after your accident. Kadar convened the premier and the parliament and named himself the head of the armies under the orders of Wonfuse and the blessing of the First Citizens. They stopped consulting with the institutions, and they are running the country directly. The machine is on, and of course, the first thing Wonfuse did is to see his future. That changed him completely.” I stopped talking briefly to see if he was following as his head was still down.
He just nodded and then said quietly, “Please continue.”
“Wonfuse spoke on national TV and all the networks and online sites as “God.” People are terrified as some of them got a message right after the speech telling the date of their death, and turns out, those dates were exact and true.”
“Stop, please…” Konu replied, barely speaking.
Oina instructed me to hide him in places that no one knows and change his location every two days, as the machine processing time now is three days. I took him to my old boat in the small port of Kerrisdale. We walked there four hours on back roads and through the canals. On the surface, the checkpoints were in every intersection, and the Services were using the civilians as snitches in a total effort to control every aspect of the state.
Finally, we arrived. I made him a tea, a cheeseburger, a big dose of a calmer, and gave him some space for privacy. He didn’t want to talk to me and seemed like he was dying.
That night, I finished preparing my things. I was leaving when I heard him calling to me, “Don’t leave… At least not, just yet.”
“Konu, it's over. They’ve got everything. The end is near, and I want to live the last moments of my life somewhere else. They made it! I told you that God is coming, and this is the end of times.”
“I still have a move… I can prevent that.”
“No, Konu, I’m sorry to tell you this, but you are delusional. A few days ago, they sent messages to a group of people randomly, they gave them their death dates, and you know what? They were correct for all of them. They all died exactly as they predicted. I don’t know what they created, but it gave them a god’s power, and you can’t beat a god. It's over! Do you hear me? …and they probably know about this conversation we are having right now.”
“I still have a move… I can prevent that.”
“You are crazy, Konu. See you in another life…”
“Where is the Supernova, Dismar? You were with me the other day, weren’t you?”
“I don’t
