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The Indwelling Chapters 1 through 4 Left Behind MARATHON
Buck braced himself with his elbow crooked around a scaffolding pole. Thousands of panicked people fleeing the scene had, like him, started and involuntarily turned away from the deafening gunshot. It had come from perhaps 100 feet to Buck’s right and was so loud he would not have been surprised if even those at the back of the throng of some two million had heard it plainly.
He was no expert, but to Buck it sounded like a high-powered rifle. The only weapon smaller that had emitted such a report was the ugly handgun Carpathia had used to destroy the scrolls of Moishe and Eli three days before. Actually, the sounds were eerily similar. Had Carpathia’s own weapon been fired? Might someone on his own staff have targeted him?
The lectern had shattered loudly as well, like a tree branch split by lightning. And the gigantic backdrop sailing into the distance…..
Buck wanted to bolt with the rest of the crowd, but he worried about Chaim. Had he been hit? And where was Jacov? Just 10 minutes before, Jacov had waited below stage left where Buck could see him. No way Chaim’s friend and aide would abandon him during a crisis.
As people stampeded by, some went under the scaffold, most what around it, and some jostled both buck and the support poles, making the structure sway. Buck held tight and looked to where giant speakers 3 stories up living this way and that, threatening their flimsy plywood supports.
Buck could choose his poison: step into the surging crowd and risk being trampled or step up a few feet on the angled crossbar. He stepped up and immediately felt the fluidity of the structure. It bounced and seemed to want to spin as Buck looked toward the platform over the top so a thousand streaking heads. He had heard Carpathia’s lament and Fortunato’s keening, but suddenly the sound – at least in the speakers above – went dead.
The Indwelling Chapters 1 through 4 Left Behind MARATHON
The Indwelling Chapters 1 through 4 Left Behind MARATHON