The Lemniscates

36. Juliette and Andrée.

- Do you want some biscuits?

- No thank you, my dear. Just tea.

- You know that herbal teas aren't really tea?

- It doesn't matter what it is. I like the taste.

- John has an entire closet.

- He's a nice boy.

- John? Are we talking about the same John? The warlock? He who sacrificed a hundred innocent people to become immortal? The one who collects demons in jars?

- Everybody makes mistakes.

- Mistakes? Turn left instead of going right, it's a mistake. Sacrificing a hundred people is a few levels above the simple mistake.

- Do you know why he did it?

- And you?

- No, but people are rarely taking such extreme actions without good reason.

- He wanted to become immortal. Period.

- Everything is not as simpl...

- Grandma? Grandma? GRANDMA !!! Don't die, don't die. Please. Don't die.

- ...

- Grandma? Are you okay? What happened?

- I ... It's my fault. It's nothing, Jule. I'll be fine.

- What does that mean? How can it be your fault?

- I ... I was in the "Links".

- The links?

- It is an advanced concept in witchcraft and also a personal project. Have you ever wondered why when you turn your head to look at someone, he's doing the same at the same time?

- hazard.

- Time has taught me that there is no hazard. Just a series of events with unknown causes. You see when this occurs; a link is created between you two. An ephemeral link. A will to look at each other, a need stronger than you arise and you turn your head.

- So what ?

- Well, in analyzing this phenomenon, I realized that there was no link creation at that time.

- You just said the opposite.

- That was my theory when I started. But now I know that this is not the case. The links exist between each and every one of us. All the time.

- Huh?

- When you turn your head, you just activate the link and you connect to each other.

- Temporarily.

- Yes. Temporarily.

- And what does that mean?

- I do not know yet. Maybe you're linking to each other one way or another.

- And why is it explaining you falling unconscious?

- Someone awoke. That overloaded the links and as I was surfing over... I took the backlash.

- Do you know who that was?

- I think this is the archaeologist you told me about. I had a brief vision of Lina in a temple.