The Seer

Final Chapter - The Revelations

Camsie's POV

I followed The Seer's advice, cuddled with Marvin as we enjoyed the meal, then made love with him on our big, comfortable living room couch. Marvin fell asleep on the couch shortly after 11:00pm. Marahil ay napagod ito.

I lay there awake, this latest favor, it just felt odd. Carefully extracting my arm from under Marvin, I left the living room and headed upstairs. Sitting down at the computer, I typed, "Are you there?"

"Yes Camsie, I'm actually always here. I've been waiting for you to come back. That pizza delivery boy. He's quite a specimen, isn't he?"

I looked intently at the screen.

The Seer continued, "He's a horrible employee. He was hired only three days ago and already Mr. Magno wants to fire him, but as a physical specimen, he's strong, fast, and VERY observant. For example, he noticed that you didn't lock the front door after he delivered your pizza."

"What?" I said aloud as I started.

"Sit down Camsie. I need to tell you something important, and locking the door now won't change your situation."

I slowly took a seat again at the computer, looking behind myself as he did so.

"You see Camsie, it's true that I never lied to you. Everything I've ever told you is 100% honest. But yes, I've withheld certain facts. You see, I told you that every task causes something bad to happen to someone else and something good to happen to you, but there's a third thing. There's an ultimate goal that each task was working toward. Remember Daniel? Of course you do. What you probably don't remember about him is that he was helping to pay his brother's way through college. When he died, he had to drop out. He was going to be a great psychologist, but now he works in a factory instead. That's really too bad for our pizza delivery boy, he could've used a good therapist a few years ago, but that good therapist wasn't there for him, instead he got some like doctor quack. And remember our lottery winner? Yes you do. He was a neighbor to our pizza boy, after he lost all his money of course. He beat the boy senseless after the boy jumped into the street in front of his car. Quite a traumatic memory for our young boy. And his mother didn't care about that incident, didn't protect the boy at all. She couldn't, not after using all the drugs given to her by her boyfriend, who happened to be one of the muggers who robbed that insurance agent. He bought the drugs with the money he made from the robbery. Do you see now the scope of my artistry?"

I sat, glaring at the monitor. I wanted to get up, to check on Marvin, but I was too scared to move.

The Seer continued, "Camsie, you've done over a hundred tasks for me, and each one has served an ultimate purpose, to psychologically destroy this boy, turn him into a monster, and to bring him here tonight. Don't you see Camsie? This involved tens of thousands of people, and billions of possibilities. If you had failed to complete even one of the tasks, the whole chain would've collapsed. This was orchestrated by me, and set in motion by you. Together we've done something wonderful, this is a masterpiece of human manipulation. Our masterpiece. And it all begins and ends with you, two perfect points in time. Tonight, wrong address, no tip, this poor boy finally snapped. He's downstairs right now. He's slitting Marvin's throat, at this exact moment.

I could hear a short, masculine scream coming from the living room, followed by a gurgling noise.

"No!" I screamed and stood up, starting to run downstairs, crying.

"Camsie, stop!" The voice startled me. It was inside my head. For the first time, The Seer was talking to me directly. It was a pleasant voice, a feminine voice. "You can't do anything, he's already gone. He'll be coming for you shortly, and you can't stop him."

"But why?" I cried with tears welling up in my eyes.

"It's not an artistic masterpiece if it doesn't begin and end with you, Camsie." Her voice was soothing. "I want you to appreciate the fact that I'm talking to you directly. This requires all of my energy, and as a result, I'll have to rest for several years before I can contact anyone again. That's how special you are to me. Please don't feel bad about this, Camsie. I want you to take a moment and enjoy our accomplishment as much as I do." The voice paused briefly, and then continued. "Do you know what Camsie? If I'd never contacted you, you would have lived for eighty five years. Eighty five boring, meaningless, and bitter years. And when you died, nobody would've been at your funeral. I gave you twelve great, meaningful years. You were happy, and together we did something beautiful, something unique."

I paused a minute and considered my twelve years of happiness, and my tears of sorrow mixed with tears of joy. I turned and looked at the computer, while behind him, the massive hulk of the demented delivery boy appeared in the doorway, a bloody knife in his left hand.

On the screen, the last words from the Seer appeared, "Don't you have something to say to me, Camsie?"

Camsie wiped her tears, and absorbed everything The Seer had just told him.

As the hulk started stepping closer to me, I said mouthed this words, "THANK YOU." As I closed my eyes.
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