Chosen (31 page)

The Mobile Exploratory Research Station hung motionless over the Ephres Ridge, hidden from psychic and physical probe by an impenetrable shield encompassing the planet of Izorach below.

The relay facility on board the MERS lay in darkness, empty of life save for the artificial intelligence of the NMIP, the Neural Matrix Information Processor, which performed millions of computations simultaneously, providing data to the five inhabitants of the Environmental Research Laboratory buried in the gut of the Ephres Ridge.

From one moment to the next, the relay facility suddenly erupted with the
shshshsh
sound as five separate Hyper Spatial Transports opened within fifteen seconds of each other. Their blue-white glow announced the arrival of the two Anorasian geneticists and the three humans.

They had been summoned by the Neural Matrix Information Processor. The information to be imparted must be of great importance.

Being the first to arrive, Emmanuel took a position directly in front of the main vid screen. He had been in his quarters, staring unmindfully at the wall, fear causing his heart to thud almost painfully in his chest when the MERS communicator strapped to his wrist began to pulse. His eyes closed in prayer and his heart rate accelerated, causing him to become light-headed as he touched the HOME button on his transport belt.

Without conscious thought, his left hand clutched his thick, curly beard, his fist coming to rest over his heart while his right hand encircled the bioinoculator on his transport belt. Excitement warred with fear in his dark brown eyes, their gold flecks catching the light from the many LEDs imbedded in the panels before the screen.

He felt the warm hand of Siddhartha, one of his two soul brothers, gently rest on his right shoulder. The
Joining
it engendered gave him a measure of peace and calm, the touch so reassuring and comforting. It was something he had come to count on over the past two thousand years.

A firm grip on his left shoulder brought with it a
Joining
that imparted excitement and elation. His second soul brother, Al-Amin, was a treasured ally in his struggle to remain optimistic since the discovery of the one who had come to mean so much to him.

The two Anorasian geneticists, the last to arrive, stood behind the three, their faces a mixture of emotions. The tension of the humans before them was palpable. The air registered their breathing in various stages of excitement, agitation, and trepidation.

The Neural Matrix Information Processor recognized the DNA signature of all five inhabitants from Izorach. And then:

I HAVE RECEIVED A DOWNLOAD FROM PS ORBITER THREE
.

The voice of the NMIP seemed to vibrate with animation in the stillness, but it was only their imagination. The NMIP was not programmed for emotions.

Ton Re’Sateron grinned, his mahogany skin almost black in the near absence of light. His exultation was tinged with some apprehension. “Proceed,” he said, his voice rumbling. All present held their breath.

A three-dimensional image began to coalesce on the screen. Five pairs of eyes stared with varying degrees of emotions as the scene before them played out, ending twenty minutes after it had begun. The screen then blanked to its normal quiescent gray.

The expression on Ton Re’Aleris’ face warred between hesitation and joy. “Would that we could be certain. That before us is the answer to The Prophecy for which we have waited millennia.”

But the humans were done with caution, and would not be denied. Loud cheers of jubilation filled the room, causing the two geneticists to smile in spite of their uncertainty.

“Now is the time to watch and wait. Surely there will be something in the near future that will wipe all doubt from our minds,” said Sateron, his happiness abating as reason and doubt returned. He locked eyes with his partner. “But one thing is certain: if we have witnessed the ascension of the Man’asorai as foretold in Netsor’ah, we have much work to do in preparation for the inevitable confrontation. If we have been deceived ... if this be the second entity so named in the Prophecy ... may the Great and Glorious Shen’dalah provide us the means to defend not only our race, but the entire galaxy.”

Alvarez, Sonja - Choir member

Anorasians - Alien race

Archembeault, Gilles - RCMP Agent – received info on Sophie Duval’s location

Armstrong, Billy - Joseph Armstrong’s father

Armstrong, Joseph - Second kidnapped child found by Mariah Carpenter

Armstrong, Latasia - Joseph Armstrong’s mother

Barrett, Geralyne - Found by Mariah during triple Finding

bioinoculator - Device to transport liquid into a living being and/or take skin and/or hair sample

Boles, Teddy - FBI agent

Bridger, Eric - Captain, San Jose Police Department, Precinct 21

Burdick, Elliott - Police lieutenant who tells Gregory Sinclair his children are dead

Campbell, Faye & Winston - 3
^rd
couple murdered by Sinclair in Salt Lake City

Carpenter, Judith - Sister of Mariah Carpenter

Carpenter, Mariah - Human female with tremendous psychic ability

Carpenter, Rachel - Mother of Mariah Carpenter

Carpenter, Saul - Father of Mariah Carpenter

Carpenter, Stephen - Brother of Mariah Carpenter

Carter-Smith, Reginald - Abductor of Joseph Armstrong

Chemos, Bartholomew - Attorney for Everett Vaughn Hinckley

Chelsea Heights Community Church - Where Mariah meets Michael Jenkins

Chutzpah - guts

Ciriatos, Jude - FBI agent who sells film of Sophie Duval
Finding
to NBC

Ciriatos, Priscilla - Wife of Jude

Clark, Matthew - Family Practices minister at Chelsea Heights Church

Clemmons, Chester Bonham - Kidnapper of Timothy Saginotu

Coltrain, Clair & Buddy - 9
^th
couple Sinclair murders, in Charlotte

Cooley, Endina - Murder target of Gregory Sinclair

Cooley, Francine - Child of Gregory Sinclair’s murder targets

Cooley, Russell - Murder target of Gregory Sinclair

Cormier, Dianne - Fifth kidnapped child found by Mariah Carpenter

Cornish, George - FBI agent in Chicago

Crenshaw, Vincent - CIA surveillance engineer

Diaz, Gustavo - Cuban Cocaine Czar (C3) who kidnaps Geralyne Barrett

Drummond, Marie & Ernest - 2
^nd
couple Sinclair murdered in Las Vegas

Dumais, Seal & Analise - 7
^th
couple Sinclair murdered in New Orleans

Duval, Sophie Celeste - Seventh kidnapped child found by Mariah Carpenter

Elliott & Shanks - PR firm who wants to represent Mariah

Engel, Zaphiel - Sixth kidnapped child found by Mariah Carpenter

Farrington, Vincent - FBI agent who posed as lineman in Joseph Armstrong rescue

Feliciano, Samuel - FBI Bureau Chief

Finding - Mariah Carpenter’s word for the process in which she discovers the whereabouts of kidnapped children

Finestein, Miriam - Mariah’s Sunday school teacher

Forrester, Amanda - First kidnapped child found by Mariah Carpenter

Fortnay, Joanna & Michael - 11
^th
Sinclair murder in Philadelphia

Fuentes, Estella - Eighth kidnapped child found by Mariah Carpenter

Fuentes, Selena - Sister of Estella Fuentes

Fuentes, Victor - Father of Estella Fuentes

Geronimo, Esther - Temporary switchboard operator at church

Groffsky, Natalie - Mariah’s choir buddy

Healing - Mariah Carpenter’s word for reversal of medical condition done to her body or someone’s with which she has
Joined
after a
Finding
has occurred

High Priest - Alien who is head of Seekers

Hinckley, Everett Vaughn - Kidnapper of Estella Fuentes

Hoffmeyer, Kurt - Kidnapper of Dianne Cormier

Inoue, Daichi & Beniha - 5
^th
Sinclair murder in St. Louis

Isaacson, John - CIA agent who infiltrates TAOC

Jenkins, Abigail - Wife of Michael Jenkins

Jenkins, Dorrie - Sister of Michael Jenkins

Jenkins, George - Brother of Michael Jenkins

Jenkins, Michael - Minister of Chelsea Heights Community Church

Jenkins, Thomas - Brother of Michael Jenkins

Joining - Mariah Carpenter’s word for her soul intertwining with another’s, providing her the psychic energy to do a
Finding

kibitz - Yiddish word meaning “gossip”

Knoff, Beverly & Harold - 4
^th
Sinclair murder in Denver

Kramer, Billy - Kidnapper of Amanda Forester

LaPrad, Phillipe - FBI agent

Le Prairie - Where George Malchelosse saw Sophie Duval

Louis the Lush - Friend of Beltram Muldur

MacAllister, Tom - Originally assigned to Amanda Forrester kidnapping

Maguire, Lynton P. - Kidnapper of Zaphiel Engel

Malchelosse, George René - Kidnapper of Sophie Celeste Duval

Mamelah - Yiddish term of endearment

Man’asorai - The Chosen by Shen’dalah in Net’sorah to save universe

Manzetti, Anthony - Frannie Manzetti’s oldest brother and her confidante

Manzetti, Frannie - FBI agent

Manzetti, Theresa - Frannie Manzetti’s mother

Martin, Peter - Music minister at Chelsea Heights Community Church

Martinez, Julio - Kidnapper of Kevin O’Reilly

mazel tov - Yiddish word meaning “congratulations”

meshugah - Yiddish word meaning “crazy”

Morgan, Ada - Secretary to Michael Jenkins

Morgan Hill - Where Amanda Forrester was kidnapped from

Muldur, Beltram “The Dragon” - Kidnapper of Benjamin and Joseph Ringeisen

Mulroney, Ambrose “Brainiac” - Childhood friend of Mariah Carpenter

Netsor’ah - Anorasian Prophecy

Newcomb, Agent - FBI agent

nonno - Italian for “grandfather”

Officer Sanders - Interviewed Mariah Carpenter concerning Amanda Forrester kidnapping

O’Reilly, Kevin - Third kidnapped child found by Mariah Carpenter

Ortega, Charlotte & Jamie - 12
^th
Sinclair murder in Markham, Ohio

Osterman, Craig - Frannie Manzetti’s FBI supervisor

Paradise, David - FBI agent

Poindexter, Allister - Linguistics professor who translates Hebrew phrases spoken by Mariah Carpenter during
Joining

Prince, Richard & Harriett - 8
^th
Sinclair murder in Atlanta

Queen Mary College - Where Michael Jenkins went to college

Rabbi Shapiro - Rabbi at Provident St. Synagogue

Raphael, Thomas James - Mariah Carpenter’s lover and cameraman who films the Findings

RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Policy

Ringeisen, Benjamin - Kidnapped child found in triple Finding, twin to Joseph

Ringeisen, Joseph - Kidnapped child found in triple Finding, twin to Benjamin

Rosh Hashanah - Jewish New Year

Rougemont - City in which George Malchelosse lived

Ryan, Chuck - Police sergeant who is with Elliott Burdick

Saginotu, Hui - Father of Timothy Saginotu

Saginotu, Timothy - Fourth kidnapped child found by Mariah Carpenter

Sapitnaski, Harold - FBI agent

Shalach Zibar - High Priest of Anorasian race

Shanaria - Anorasian for “destiny”

Shen’dalah - Anorasian God

shul - Yiddish word meaning “synagogue”

Simon, Deborah - Judge during Mariah Carpenter’s trial

Sinclair, Annabelle - Gregory Sinclair’s wife

Sinclair, Evan - Son of Gregory Sinclair

Sinclair, Gregory Braedon - Killer clown

Sinclair, Michelle - Daughter of Gregory Sinclair

Snauff, Emily & Steven - 1
^st
Sinclair murder in Santa Fe

Sov’dovaris - Other entity mentioned in Netsor’ah who will destroy universe

Soyinka, Na’Zyia & Malik - 10
^th
Sinclair murder in Washington DC

Stillwater, Evelyn - Mariah Carpenter’s manager

swshswsh - Noise made when someone arrives via a hyperspatial transport

Tatelah - little one

tsoris - Yiddish word meaning “heartache”

tumult - Yiddish word meaning “noise”

Van Horten, Amy - Ben Van Horten’s wife

Van Horten, Ben - Work associate and friend of Mariah Carpenter

Visitation - Mariah Carpenter’s terminology when Emmanuel came to her on the night she contemplates suicide

Winters, Gabriel - CIA agent posing as FBI agent

yarmulke - round head covering worn in the synagogue by the men

Zablonski, Irene - Mother of Marty Zablonski

Zablonski, Marty - Childhood friend of Mariah Carpenter that she “found” during a psychic episode