The man, was tall, young, with shaggy brown hair and
bloodshot eyes hidden behind scratched glasses.
He was smiling so big that the corners of his mouth looked like they
were about to touch his ears.
“Jimmy, you okay?” The lone waitress in the diner started
towards him, her pink uniform rustling, and her white sneakers squeaking on the
floor as she rushed towards him. “You
don’t look so good.”
Protectively, I moved towards my mother, shielding her from
the guy named Jimmy.
The waitress was about three feet from Jimmy, when the young
man’s hand shot up. It was the one
holding his phone, and the screen was burning white hot bright. The waitress froze, a gasp coming from her
mouth.
Jimmy was looking directly at our table now.
“This…” he said, “is not biblical. This, all this, is a technological
revolution. The data becoming
flesh.” As he spoke his voice seemed to
separate, becoming the voice of many speaking at once. “This is the Void
becoming one with the world.”
The other diners leapt up, doing their best to pull the
waitress away, but the second their eyes met the bright light of that cellphone
screen, they froze on place. One man
came up behind Jimmy, hands raised and ready to strike. With his free hand, Jimmy batted him away,
knocking him over a table and onto the cold, hard floor.
I could feel my mom’s hand clutching mine. We needed to get out of there. Dina got up first, and I followed her
lead. We moved slowly, carefully, making
sure that Jimmy wasn’t following us.
“Yes, we are Legion.” Jimmy was laughing now. “We are many, but we are one.”
I could hear other voices now, voices that I
recognized.
Randy…
Luke…
Bella…
They were in there.
They were a part of that… thing, that was now using Jimmy.
Without warning, the waitress spun around, her eyes glazed
over a milky white. She began to
scream. Then, with a sudden, sickening
crackling of bone, her face collapsed in on itself.
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