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Swan And Eckhart: A Short Story

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Almost a month had passed since the last time I had seen or heard from Anna. I was sure that at some point during that past four weeks, either her or another member of the Alliance had probably tried to contact me via computer. But the power had remained cut to my laptop since the day that Swan grilled me, so that wasn’t going to happen. Swan and Eckhart had also visited one other time since then, it was about a week ago, and they drew more blood yet again. Although, I did my best to lie low for a while; I remained on alert. Swan’s last visit seemed to go better than the previous one, but she still made me suspect that she had suspected something because there were more digging questions thrown my way. I had answered them as best I could, but I was still left feeling an increasing unease by the exchange. As I pondered these things, I was sitting on my bed watching a movie with Daisy when her ears …show more content…

“Yeah, more of an annoyance than anything else, but such is life,” she said, and then we both shared a laugh. “Come on, we got to hit the road, I want to get to De Soto a little early.” “Wisconsin?” I asked. “What’s the place this time?” “Just a pretty cool forested area,” answered Anna. “It gives off a renascence vibe when everything gets lit up by torches, I really like this spot,” she then said as she began climbing back out my bedroom window. “Oh, and you’ll have to drive my bike because this one handed riding I’ve been forced to do isn’t working all too well.” “Okay, that’s fine,” I agreed. It had taken us a little over an hour to get to De Soto, not bad time really. But, that was only after Anna had called me a grandma for driving so slow, and then I really held down the throttle. “Got us here in record time, and without a single deer mishap,” I teased upon arrival. “Beginners luck,” she responded

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