صدای جونور

CHAPTER TEN

Voice of the Beast

So far so good. That was well done. My plan is working well. I’m good at this. I’m patient and I think of everything. I know how to take one small step at a time. I know how to get what I want. Time means nothing to me.

I can wait and wait for the right moment. It is like taking a photograph of a child or an animal. You must think hard, think of nothing else. You must know what will happen before it does. Or it is like flying a plane, or sailing a boat in a strong wind. A little touch here, a touch there, and everything will keep going in a straight line to the end.

The husband is not there now. He is hurt but I don’t care. He is hurt just enough. Enough to keep him in the hospital, away from her. But not so badly that she will be worried about him. I don’t want her to think too much about him. I want her to be happy to talk to me.

Things will be difficult for her now. She needs someone who can help her to do everything, the small everyday things. She is weak because the darkness is getting nearer and she knows it. Before, the darkness was only in her dreams. Now she feels it close behind her when she is awake and she is afraid.

She is alone and she needs someone she can talk to. I am going to help her. She will talk to me because I will listen to her. Not like her husband. He does not know how to listen. Little by little. Step by step. That’s the way to do it.