Coyote Palace 🪞 9

Mona pulled at a thread that was loose on her shirt. It started to bunch the cloth up so she immediately stopped not wanting to pull too much and reached for a pair of scissors to cut it off with instead. She was still thinking about the experience she had last night when she was vividly living another life that seemed so real, as real if not more so, than the one she was currently experiencing. 

Mona looked up as Gerald was making his way over to Gary. He seemed more focused. The niceties were being put aside and the Gerald that was now here was one Mona did not care for very much at all. This was the way they acted that caused Mona to leave their order all those years ago. There was nothing divine to it. It reeked of control. Plain, ordinary control. 

Gerald reached out and touched his palm to Gary’s forehead, making him motionless except for his eyes which darted back and forth in terror trying to figure out what was happening to him. They were the only things he had any control over at this moment and because of that he wouldn’t stop moving them. Mona had hated it then and she wasn’t feeling any differently at present. “Hey” she yelled, “stop playing with him. It’s right there”, she pointed indicating the spot where the mason jar lay on its side. “Take it and him and get the fuck out of my office”

Gerald smiled, “your Office? I’m not sure what the game is that you’re playing but we know this is no office of yours. Why are you here? With him? I know you won’t tell and you know we will find out. Time.” 

Mona tried to close her eyes but she wasn’t fast enough and the flash caught her, burning and blinding here eyes with its heat and intensity. She found herself seeing the outline of a table but not any table that had been in the room before. It was a table she had never seen before and on it was a monitor showing the image of a hotels front desk with two men standing and talking, the one checking the other in. She recognized one of them, the one with the bag slung over his shoulder as he filled out the registry. What was H doing here, and Where the hell was here?