LiTTLE CHERiNE Book 03 - post079

“I’ll need a statement. Thanassi, take the gentleman and get him to sign a sworn statement. Get all the details of what he said or did.”

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As they walked away Savva looked down at the two bodies, he was trying to use his gifts to feel life in them. He shuddered. Almost under his breath he asked, “You are sure they are alive? Roberto, I understand why you are so angry. I felt like hitting the cold bastard.”

“Actually he did feel pain, but he controlled it. He saw no point in letting himself suffer for what is done and cannot be undone.”

“You are acting as witness?”

“Yes. They needed to see whether he cared. I do not look forward to letting them see.”

“I’m sorry Roberto, I know this must be tearing you up. Can you bring them back now while I am down here?”

“Okay.”

Gently the healer warmed their bodies and brought their heartbeat back up to normal. Five minutes later Anna sighed. Her daughter did not take much longer to open her eyes. The young man sat up in shock; recalling the scalpel and what he had been about to do, his hand trembled as he checked them out.

“Do not move, you must go to the hospital for a doctor to check you. What drug did you take?”

“I will take over. Go write your report.”

“Roberto?”

“Shh Smaragda, I am here. It is over, we will get you and your mother home.”

“Can we go to your home please?”

“Of course my love. That okay with you Anna?” Numbly she nodded in agreement.

“Did he care Roberto? Did my daddy cry?”

“Let’s get home and I will let both of you see what my eyes saw directly.”

She began to cry and her mother heavily got up and going to her hugged her daughter.

“He didn’t cry mummy. He doesn’t care.”

As they hugged each other I stood there, still invisible, my arms crossed over my chest, trying to hold the pain inside me. I silently made my plans.

The girls were tender and showered them with a soft sweet love. I stood in my office looking at a map. I jumped to the first factory. I re-set every machine, causing a few to destroy themselves and others to make the products rolling out on conveyor belts totally worthless. The workers rushed around trying to set things back to normal, but I blocked them, confusing their minds.

I went to the second factory and repeated my performance. Chemicals mysteriously spilled out over the floor and the factory had to be vacated. The third factory was just as easy.

I returned to each factory to examine the books and computers. I was now ready.

I found him at his home. I went directly to the entrance of the apartment and rang his bell. I looked totally different, like a Greek lawyer. He opened the door.

“Who are you, what do you want?”

“You have heard from your factories?” I pushed my way past him, making sure he could not stop me. I went to the dining table and sat.

“Konstandino, sit down and listen carefully. You did not want a wife and daughter. Fine, you will not have them. They are not dead, they came back to life and left, hiding with friends. I have come to tell you what the terms of your divorce will be.

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I want you to be clear that the terms are not negotiable and I am certain you must have had phone calls from your factories…”

“They are not dead!!?” I only stared, my eyes cold and hard.

“You have been told you suffered tremendous losses today. The same will happen day after day until you prepare the documents I want. Let me be clear about this. Your wife does not know me, she has not authorised the action I am taking on her behalf. If you think that by negotiating with her you can get a better deal, you are welcome to try. I do not care what she agrees to, these are my terms!

You have three factories. The chemical one is the most profitable one and worth the most. You will transfer that factory into the name of your wife as settlement for the divorce. You will draw up a will in favour of your daughter, leaving her the other two factories, shares, properties, everything you have, here and abroad. As part of your divorce agreement the will is to be final and irrevocable. You will also undertake to provide your daughter with an income equal to no less than one third of your annual profits or returns on investment during your lifetime. Sit there!”

I went to the kitchen and got a sharp paring knife.

“You are thinking of resisting me. Do not. You are not dealing with a human being, I can walk into your factories and cause havoc as I did today. I can walk into your home whenever I want and harass you, I can make sure you do not get another night of sleep. Take that knife. Hold it point down over my hand. Now use all your strength to stab me.”

He did not have a choice about it, I forced him to do it. The blade broke and he stared at my hand.

“You cannot kill me. I exist - I do not exist, as I will.” I made myself invisible and getting up walked to his side and breathed heavily on him, pushed him about and returning to my seat I became visible again.

“What you did to your child has incurred the wrath of powers you cannot imagine exist. The mother was a favoured one. If you had treated her well, filled her heart with love, your possessions would have increased tenfold. We brought them back to life. They will live and prosper. Not you. There will not be one woman again for you. You are welcome to try,” I gave a wicked grin, my eyes staying hard, “you are no longer a man in that sense. One final word of warning. Each day you delay, there will be more losses and damages. This will reduce the value of the factories. In that case we will demand more, a higher percentage of your net worth so that they do not lose by your obstinacy.”

“This is blackmail!”

“So you do have some courage? Blackmail is what a human does to a human. In our case, it is our will.”

“Who are you?”

I did not answer. As I stood by the door I turned to him. “I will be back every day until you do as ordered.”

The door did not open, I just vanished.

“What you did Roberto, is it ethical?”

“If Anna did it, perhaps the answer would be no. Alki, I will do this whether I am right or wrong.”

“If you do not follow rules, laws, whether human or ours, you will become a menace and all will fear you - including Cherinians.”

“If we were in America, it is what would be awarded, more or less. Alki, sometimes what is wrong can also be right, if examined in a different way.”

“That is not the point, the laws here are different. What you are doing is illegal.”

“Are you saying that if a law is wrong we should not take matters into our hands and try to see justice is served?”

“I ask that you think carefully before you continue.”

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“Alki, the Law was created so as to serve Justice - it was never meant to be that Justice serves the Law. It was supposed to make all humans equal. Is that how things are? We know it is not. If you can afford the best attorneys you can get away with murder. Hell, now even corporations have more rights than people do! We are afraid of chaos so we say, obey the law, if you seek justice then see to having the laws changed - do not break the laws. Vote into government the party you believe represents what you want so that they change the laws. That is hypocrisy, for none of the parties care about what their citizens want, once they are elected. The ordinary person, those without wealth and power see the injustice of how things are, but, however strongly they feel about it, knowing they are powerless they accept it, because they know that rebelling will destroy everything, bring our civilisation to its knees.

I have the power to force justice to be served. I should sit back and watch as he settles a pittance on his wife and daughter, takes away from his daughter not only a father and social standing, but also changes his will so that some pretty young cunt gets it all because he has the ‘hots’ for her? You say I could harm the Cherinians by doing this? I would be harming myself if I sit back and allow it.”

“You used your healer to make him impotent?”

“No. I used psychology.”

He thought about it and chuckled. “If he manages to screw his girl, what then?”

“Alki. He went through a traumatic day. He saw his wife and daughter dead. He touched her cheek and felt it was cold. He gets this terrifying visit. If he can get it up after all that, well, good luck to him. But if he fails even once, he will not recover.”

“Would you mind if I discuss this with Themi, Luigi and Elia?”

“At a guess I would say Themi and Elia would agree with you and Luigi with me. You all have a vested interest in seeing the boat is not rocked. I am not insulting you Alki, I am saying that your wealth, the power you enjoy, subconsciously affects the way you view things.”

I had finally annoyed him and he countered, “You are trying to be a Robin Hood?”

I laughed, “You mean you side with the Sheriff?”

“You are one crazy bugger - as you British say. You know I do not. You forget I come from a village, I have known poverty. As I said, let me think about it.”

“I do not want Anna to know.”

“I understand.”

“I think not. I want the bastard to make them think he is giving it to them because he feels guilty, or because he does care. A small salve to heal their hearts. Alki, if he had reassured Smaragda that he loves her, will always be there for her, but he does not love her mother, maybe that he loved someone new, I would have felt sorry for them, but not been angry. What he did though, the way he did it, can you imagine what psychological damage he caused that precious little heart? He has to pay!”

“A theoretical situation. If he has a child with his new love. Are you saying the new child should be left penniless, Smaragda to get it all?”

I nodded. “You’ve made a good point. Let him create new wealth for her. We will only demand a share of what he has today. The future belongs to him, but he has a child and has a responsibility. She is part of his past and he owes her his total commitment as if he had stayed with the mother.” I though of how my father left my mother totally penniless and knew I am doing the right thing.

“You see things too simply.”

“I have wondered why governments do not have a committee to kill laws. Just as they sit and make new laws, there should be someone who looks at old laws and gets rid of those no longer relevant. Of course I thought that way at a time when I was far more naïve about governments and what drives men.”

“I agree, naïve, but not a bad idea. Unfortunately it is not likely to happen, every law, whether antiquated or not, however obsolete it may be, widens the hold governments have on their citizens.”

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I hope you enjoy reading this story of fantasy, adventure and love - and should some of it be true for our reality, I hope you will love our Cherine.

Αλέξανδρος Ζήνον Ευσταθίου

(Alexander Zenon Eustace)
^{9th October, 2019}

* posted : 9th October, 2019

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