Dallas:Sessions:20071103
Paula Baker’s Thoughts Monday October 22, 2007- (Immediately after Fight - 1:30 PM GMT)
I’m so tired. But gotta hold it together. The good news is that the Sword still helps me. Unfortunately that’s also the bad news. Now there’s Sabrina Kyle to worry about. Or rather her necromantic amulet. She’s a predator that needs to be taken care of, but I don’t feel like I’ve got time to do it now. Wonder how long it’ll take Jeremy to finish this business with the hotel.
I’ve gotta get a better hang of dealing with both sets of memories. I can’t ignore the Sword memories, that’s too dangerous now that reaping time for those actions is coming. Treadwell is not pleased and coming for me. The scary thing is I’m not sure that they are the ones trying to kill me – or not the only ones. The hit at the restaurant doesn’t feel like them.
I need to think – remember through all that on the flight back to Dallas and come up with the ‘Love to Kill Paula’ list. The scary thing is I’m afraid I know how I would have dealt with this two days ago and part of me still would – which is why I must maintain firm control.
The Amulet seems to help. And good fortune has shown that it’ll help others. Darvich seems to have some degree of resistance to the time change – not much but enough to get the déjà vu feeling. But when he accidentally touched the Amulet, more concrete memories of the original time line came back to him. It also turns out that I was not the only one who had quit wearing the amulet – both Jeremy and Axle are not wearing theirs. They need to have contact with an Amulet; I think it’ll give them back the memories. Hopefully they’ll trust me enough to touch mine – but if not hopefully they will be willing to wear their own once we get back to Dallas. It would be so nice to have the others remember what was.
I not sure that John or Kef will put theirs back on – I’ll ask them but I think they won’t trust me enough because of my actions here before and Kef seems to blame this all on Enigma. But I trust Kef – she has good instincts. She’s with the Sword. I wonder what that has to do with the way it has been relating to me in the last several hours.
I’m so thankful for her warning – Getting Darvich out was so much easier than I thought it would be. And it scares me to think were I’d be now if I’d gone in there influenced like I was. Feeding my rage and lust just does not help at all.
Now need to hook Darvich up with Kef and get him thinking and building Time Portal. And coordinates. -- gotta get coordinates. Best shot I can think of is to go to the source – but I’m going to need a lot of energy and my sanity can’t afford for me to take it from the Sword. So another task on the trip back has to be making the list of those that believe and will help. That is gonna be hard, given the way I’ve been here for the last several years.
Oh good, looks like we’re ready to move out – Once we hook up with Axle and Darvich, I’ll see how receptive Jeremy and Axle are to touching my Amulet. It would be nice to have them remember.
Paula’s Second Transmission to Enigma
October 22, 2007 - --- @ Noon CDT
Enigma,
Stage one of our plan went smoother that expected with all complications seeming to arise from non related local conditions. We have obtained the person who can build the needed transport and are heading back to Dallas.
I will transmit a fuller report once I’m back on a secure terminal.
Paula Baker.
Return to Dallas