At any rate, we waited until after we’d been seated and our orders taken to take up the conversation again, and I was internally thankful that our hostess had chosen a secluded table in the corner to continue a discussion that no sane person would ever have.
Chapter 13
Elisabeth~
As soon as the waitress was finished delivering our drinks, I asked, “You’re really starting to believe all this, aren’t you?”
Lazarus looked at me like I’d just asked him to confess that he was a serial killer, but I didn’t blame him.Answering yes would be like admitting that you were crazy, and that would be a very difficult thing for a person to do, let alone a psychiatrist.Especially, one that had dismissed the validity of spiritual mental illness at one point.
I eyed him, a small smirk playing on my lips.“I promise I won’t tell anyone.”
“This isn’t funny, Lissa,” he drawled out.
I let out a very tired sigh because he was right.“No, it’s not.At the very least, we have someone who is in need of psychiatric help, and that is definitely not funny.”
“Lissa, what if he’s telling the truth?”he asked seriously.“What if this is real?”
As much as I didn’t want to, I couldn’t dismiss Bodhi’s claims altogether, and I knew it.While the alternative was just...just outright insane, there were still just too many truths to his claims, and I couldn’t just brush him off as a charlatan, no matter how easier that would be.
“I don’t know, Russ,” I answered honestly.“It’s hard to grasp when there are still so many unanswered questions racing through my brain.”
“Such as?”
“Like, when is this...this apocalypse supposed to take place?”I asked.“Where is it supposed to happened?Does it take place here, or are we getting transported to a different realm?Will we still be in human form during this epic battle, or will we be gifted with our own set of wings?”I shook my head, my mind spinning again.“Even if I buy into the religious aspects of Bodhi’s claims, there are still very real logistics that need to be ironed out, don’t you think?”
“Maybe those are things that Bodhi will tell us once we commit,” he suggested as he shrugged.“But I’m with you on the probability that we’d lose against demons in our human form.”
I eyed Lazarus, knowing that there had to be more to his role in all this than we were aware.“And then there’s you to consider.”
“Me?”he echoed, his head rearing back a bit.“What about me?”
“What made them scared of you, Lazarus?”I asked.“You were only a small boy in those dreams, hardly a threat.Why didn’t they just...just take me?Why did they back down from you?If I’m the one who’s so powerful, why were they scared ofyou?”
He shook his head.“I don’t know,” he sighed.“I’ve been so focused on your ties to all this that I haven’t given it much thought.”
“Maybe they weren’t scared of you,” I remarked, my mind spinning again.“Maybe they were scared ofus.”
