Kharon Part 57

Kharon Chapter 57

        Emma, Jacob and Sparky are going up a glass elevator that overlooks an indoor atrium designed like a rain forest complete with a waterfall that goes outside the building and crashes back indoors in the atrium.  “Listen while we have a moment I just wanted to say about last night….”, starts Jacob.

        Emma’s head whips back from the view.  “It was fun.  Leave it at that.”

        “But you….”

        “I said leave it.  We’re good.”  Emma and Jacob both divert their eyes from one another in silence as Sparky looks between the two of them rotating his head back and forth.  

         Emma and Jacob walk up to a room with just a dark mahogany sign hanging over the door that reads: ‘Mist’.  “Guess this is the place”, says Jacob.  They walk through the door and their eyes begin adjusting instantly to the dimly lit reception room.  They both feel out of place amongst all the colorful characters looking up at the newcomers.  Jacob walks over to the reception desk in the corner.  There is a samurai like figure sitting behind it reading a book.  “We’re here to see The Mist.”  

        The samurai does not look up from the book but instead just hands Jacob a card.  “Take a number”, he growls.

        Suddenly a hidden panel in the wall to the room opens and another samurai emerges from it and bellows, “The Mist will now address number 7433.”

        “Well at least we don’t have a long wait”, says Jacob looking down at the card.  A man wearing a robe with bizarre swirling patterns of color on it gets up and walks through the secret panel into the misty darkness along with the samurai.  The panel slams shut behind them.