Excerpt: The past will get you

Paranormal Subplot 2

Druskaina is twenty –eight and has her Ph.D and specializes in language acquisition. She teaches in a small college in Decca. She teaches courses in language development and early childhood intervention. She has an assistant that keeps her on track in and on time with her classes and research. Her assistant in general is Juan Gomez and her research assistant is Carol Ann Baker. It was an interesting combination because both young students thought they were in charge of Druskianna.

The two assistants were grad students who were interested in special education and had come to the college specifically to work with Dr. Talon.

Druskianna also is a forensic linguist and works occasionally with the police in the Decca area. Her fields of experitise are written and oral language. It’s always interesting because people think that she is a document examiner and she isn’t she is just interested in the way the person puts together the language in the oral and written sense.

In addition, Druskainna helps out at her friends dojo, now that Sue is pregnant. She runs the jazzercise class in the morning and helps out with the kickboxing class for the adults in the morning and with kids in the afternoon.

The Past will get you
Chapter One
“Kane, we have already went out this evening and I don’t want to go again,” Druskianna told her white german shepherd/chow mix dog.
He just looked up at her with his tongue longing up in his mounth. He started to bark. Now that was something, barking meant something. Kane didn’t bark, it was the chow in him.
Druskianna went to get her flashlight, put her leash on Kane and opened the patio door. Kane took off running and she held on tight. Suddenly, Kane stopped and Druskianna slammed into the tree.
“What is it Kane?” she said as she patted Kane on the head. She shined the flashlight around the area and all she saw were the trees and grass. It was also pitch outside and the moon had gone underneath the cloud.
Kane started to whine and pull on the leash. Druskianna let her have her head, but kept a tight rein. All of sudden a person, no a man appeared in front of her. He was bleeding from a wound to the shoulder and just the right side of his stomach. He looked very pale and his appearance was just this side of odd. She thought maybe he was a member of the local Indian tribe.
Before she had a chance to think anything more about him, he fell on her and she dropped Kan’'s leash. “Help me,” he said and closed his eyes.
Druskianna flicked her hands at him and he froze, including his blood flow. This was a good thing.
Now what, Druskianna thought to herself. She could pick him up and dragging him was not an option because it might cause the wounds to bleed.
“JEREMY! JEREMY!” she yelled.
Jeremy was a Karen’s boyfriend and would be able to move him to the house without an issue. It wasn’t so much that Jeremy would be able to hear her, but Karen should be able to .
Maybe she could leviatate him. Her powers of levitation had been increasing in the last few months, so maybe it would be an option. She moved her hands around his body so he was flat, just like he was on the bed. Druskianna pushed him towards her house and, yes, thank you God, it was working.
Suddenly, Karen and Jeremy appeared towards the left of her and Druskianna quickly explained what had happen. Karen held his hand and disappeared, while Jeremy and Druksianna continued to walk toward the house. Kane had run up ahead, since Druksiannna have forgotten to hold onto his leash.
When they arrived at the house, Karen had already got some hot water and bandages out for his wounds.
“He’s been shot” , she told them both. “He doesn’t look like he’s human, and his blood is purple.
Druskianna looked at the person and saw that he had some kind of black box. It looked like some kind of communication device.. Druskiannna put her hand on the device and got a flash of him materializing on earth near her house.
“He materialized here, much in the same way that you do, Karen, but I think hismethod was machine genereated like you see on Star Trek.” Druskianna told them.
“Okay, so he isn’t an enemy.” Karen responded. “Now what, do you want me to get Angelique and see what she can do?”
“I guess that is our only option.”
“Jeremy, you come with me so that I can bring Angelique and some supplies if she needs them.” Karen said, “Are you going to be okay??
“I’ll be fine.” She assured them. “For some reason I think that he was looking for me.”
“That doesn’t make me feel better.” Karen and Jeremy disappeared.
While they were gone, Druskianna got some blankets and pillow and made her guest, for a lack of better word, comfortable. She started to work on the wounds and suddenly, there was a flash in the corner of her eye. Out of habit she froze what she saw and the flash stopped.
She looked down and realized that the flash was coming for her couch and it appeared that her guest was trying to leave. This was a problem. She really needed to find out what was happening. These wounds were fresh, and the fact that a person was shot in the vincinty of her house and she hadn’t heard the shots. Not only that, it appeared that Kane was the only one sensitive to what was happening.
Druskianna put hand on Kane’s forehead and looked at him. “What happened Kane?”
“I just heard the shots”
Great, thanks, but that doesn’t help.
Another flash and Druskianna froze it. This time it appeared that someone was coming into the house. She held her arms out and kept both being froze.
Karen get back here.
“What is going on here?” Angelinque demanded.
“When you tell me I”ll know.