Page 32 of Oracle Returns: Time will Stop

She wished it was as simple as that, so she tried to help them understand.

“Kind of, if you are Catholic and that’s your belief. Buddhists call it Niraya. Judaism has a term for it, too. It’s called Gehenom. Pagans will refer to that place as Hades. Purgatory is a term that differs across religions. For me, it’s the static. It’s the intermediary place. For Lucian, it’s the same. He’s not particularly religious.”

He sighed.

“I’m willing to become religious real fast if we can pray to something to make this stop.”

Julian agreed there.

Avalon was honest.

“What this is…he’s not spawned. He’s not a family man, teaching his child how to do this and carry on.”

Oh, they didn’t like that.

Cops knew that killers liked to train the next generation of killer to perpetuate the cycle.

“We can’t let that happen,” Tori said.

Oh, she was aware.

“For now, we’re good. I don’t feel an offspring yet. We need to make sure that never happens, or this will continue on. He’ll teach it hate, like he was taught, and before we know it, the next generation of psychics will have no peace.”

Well, they didn’t want that.

Evil shouldn’t be allowed to keep expanding. God knew they saw enough of it in their lives.

“I know this is all weird to all of you and not normally what you deal with, but it’s completely normal to us,” she said, pointing at Lucian, Bishop, and the Armstrongs.

Well, that was neither here nor there, and Tori knew it.

“If it’s here, we have to handle it. I’d like to keep my dead, and my gift,” she admitted.

It was safe to say they all did.

Avalon was honest.

“Unfortunately, it became too much for just me to handle. I needed Lucian, and I’m going to need Genesis. It’s too close for comfort.”

Yeah, tell Josh about it.

He’d been mostly silent.

Until now.

“It’s not getting Gennie. That’s not fucking happening. I don’t care what I have to do to keep her safe. Let’s find it and make sure it can’t keep coming back to bite everyone here in the ass!”

Yeah, that sounded like the best option, now that they understood it was all connected. Before, they only had bits and pieces. Now, they had the bigger picture, and Littlemoon Investigations dealt with the odd and crazy.

That was their bread and butter.

Avalon was honest.

“That is my hope. That all of us together can find him. We psychics can’t do it alone. We need all of your gifts, psychic and research-related.”

Jagger was curious.

“So, you’ve always known this would happen?” he asked.