Now, I got the sensation of speed, fast speed, along with turning and twisting as if on a slalom course from the metal. Had Roger taken it out several times on an obstacle course of some sort? Surely, he wasn’t doing that through the forest? The turns between trees would be too sharp and much too dangerous to make.
But I didn’t get anything from the accident itself. Maybe the body of it could offer more. At least, here, he would have gripped the handlebars and touched the interior.
I pushed up to stand, then leaned over it and pressed my fingers to the bar, about where he would have gripped it. A hazy image formed in my mind, the late afternoon shadows across the snow and the trees looming up before me. The sharp swerve as he guided the vehicle around a tree, then another tree, and another. They came quickly, too quickly, and the speed didn’t diminish. In my view, they began to blur and became difficult to maneuver around. It veered to the left, just missing a tree, then the abrupt shock of the runner hitting something, continuing at an angle...
Feeling off-balance, I grabbed the edge of the snowmobile with my other hand to steady myself as the vision continued. The snowmobile flipped, spinning and landing in a bank of snow near the edge of the meadow, right where Ferris and I had found it.
But at the very end, as it had flipped, I’d glimpsed another person on a different snowmobile, following along behind Roger’s, a man about the same build and going at a slower pace. I couldn’t see much of his face under the helmet and snow goggles, but Roger hadn’t been out there alone. Roger had to have glanced back as I saw the man’s mouth life into a one-sided sneer to his right.
I shook my head and straightened up. “That was revealing,” I said, then told Detective Moss everything I’d seen in that vision.
“You don’t know who the other person was?” he asked.
“No, he was too bundled up. He wore a dark blue snowsuit and had a black helmet on his head. Not much help.”
He pursed his lips and thought for several seconds. “You’re right about that. Anything else you can tell me?”
“Roger seemed to be traveling way too fast and the trees looked blurry, kind of smeared across the vision. I don’t know if he was seeing them that way, but since it was his view, I’m guessing they were distorted some.”
“That ties in with the drugs in his system. But something isn’t quite right about this. I can’t connect to what seems off. Let me do some research. At least, you’ve given me some indication that someone may know more than they’ve admitted or there’s another party that was involved. If he was a friend, why did he leave Mitchell in the snow, allow him to wander off, and not call for help?”
“My thoughts exactly,” I said, wondering if Roger’s spirit could have told me who he was with that day. And why didn’t he? Perhaps he couldn’t remember.
Rubbing his hands together to warm them, Moss turned and motioned for to me to follow. “First, I need to find the person before we can even begin to figure out the rest of it. But if what you saw is right, then we could have a murder case.”
I followed along behind as we left the lot and I thought about the victim of that crash. Roger Mitchell, my sometimes stalker, had been out by himself, apparently, riding across the meadows in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, when his snowmobile had flipped. It appeared he’d managed to get out of it, but had been in the forested area—which was just plain stupid when driving one of these—had gotten disoriented, and died of exposure.
Except the autopsy showed a high concentration of narcotics in his blood, suggesting that he was high. This, in turn, led the investigators to conclude it was an accidental death or he deliberately chose suicide. They tended to believe the latter, but this might change that.
I had last seen Roger on the wrong side of the ethereal cemetery. He’d begged for my help and my forgiveness. I couldn’t do anything about the first part, but I granted the last request. However, in that encounter and in the vision I’d had prior to it, he’d said nothing about being with anyone that day.
If I could reach him, I might get a name, but it was dangerous to try. Although I hadn’t been physically damaged, my left ankle had been sore for three days after the excursion to the ethereal cemetery. It proved, once again, that even in the spirit form, I could be hurt by the yiaiwa, the evil spirit creatures my colleagues and I were battling.
A Song of Redemption
Coming in Fall 2018
About the Author
A sometimes musician, sporadic artist, occasional poet, and obsessed writer, Lillian Wolfe has spent most of her life writing. From fan fiction to short stories, novels, training manuals, newsletters, and other documentation, she has constantly been putting words on paper or a computer screen. She is, in fact, extremely grateful for the invention of the computer because using a manual typewriter is tedious. While she loves all types of fiction, her favorites are fantasy and mystery novels.
Lillian shares her home in northern Nevada with her best friend for the past thirty-odd years, two feisty felines, and one charming Bichpoo dog. She is a member of the High Sierra Writers Group and the Fiction Writers Group.
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Look for A Song of Redemption, the final novel in my “Funeral Singer” series, which is planned for release in the fall of 2018.
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FUNERAL SINGER: A SONG for Marielle - Book One
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As a musician-for-hire, Gillian Foster accepts many different jobs, some with her band and some solo, but she’s taken aback when she’s asked to sing at a funeral. She’s even more startled to learn that a recent head injury has given her a paranormal gift as she finds herself face-to-face with the deceased in an ethereal cemetery.
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