So it was a good thing I still wasn't asleep at 2:45am, working on my
next Talk to Terry column, when London took over my computer screen to
report in. She apologized for not recognizing that the lack of change in the
energy filling Neighborlee over the holidays was actually a danger sign.
"Come again?" I wondered for a moment or two if I had fallen
asleep and was dreaming this report.
"We should have gotten surges of energy from all the high holiday
spirits and good will spilling into town from about Thanksgiving onward. There
was a slight rise. Enough to make us think everything was fine. We
should have realized the energy bubbles should have been a lot higher and
stronger. Meaning something was draining that extra energy all the visitors and
shoppers and holiday activities have brought into town."
"And with the big surge of excitement from New Year's, whatever
happened when the doppelganger came into the party and masqueraded as Daniel …
it was covered up?" I guessed.
Yeah, I had been reading some of the right science fiction books, but
obviously not all, or not enough.
"Basically. We're tracking down its footprints, its energy
signature. We think we've found one weak spot where it slipped through the
defensive shield."
"So it came from outside?" That little bit of news gave me a
jolt of energy. I was not going to bed any time soon.
"Looks like it."
"And it hasn't slithered out again," Sherwood reported, as my computer screen split in two to let him show up. "At least, as far as we can tell."
"So what's it doing? Who is it masquerading as and who is it bothering right --"
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