Chapter 3: Bob's Work
Bob’s Office
November 5, 8:55 a.m.
Bob stepped off the elevator at exactly 8:55 a.m., just as he did every morning. His secretary smiled to herself. She could set her watch to him. He was a good-looking man, blonde with blue eyes. His body was firm, and he was obviously very dedicated to his work.
‘But,’
she thought, ‘
there is something cold about him.’
"Good morning, Allison," Bob said as he neared her desk. "Cancel my morning appointments, I don’t wish to be disturbed until after 11:00." By the time he was finished speaking he was passed her desk and closing the door to his office.
Bob locked the door to his office. He then walked over to the bar. It was a fairly sophisticated bar with a mirrored back. The entire thing sat on a dais. Rather than pouring himself a drink, he reached up beside the bar to a hidden lever. The dais rotated all the way around until the bar settled behind the wall. On this half of the dais was an altar. Bob lit the red candles and began to chant.
"Omeca Ota Ema Eshcava." From nowhere a breeze began to blow. Bob was concentrating to hard on the chant to marvel at the breeze in an enclosed office.
"
Omeca Ota Ema Eschava
." The smoke from the candles began to thicken into a black, oily mist. The breeze carried the mist behind Bob where it began to coalesce into a form.
"
OMECA OTA EMA ESCHAVA!
" The form solidified and took on color. It was a woman with long blonde hair and piercing green eyes. Her bright red lipstick was the same color as the v-neck dress she wore. Not that the dress covered much more than what was necessary. What it did cover didn’t leave much to the imagination.
"What is it this time, Bob?" She said in a sultry voice. It was a voice that carried with it every man's ideal voice for a woman. Bob reached up to the altar and removed a sword from it. The blade was 40 inches long with an 8-inch handle. It was a simple and functional sword.
"The price for your services," Bob replied, holding the sword out, "according to the Leiberman Diary, is a sword crafted on a virgin forge and quenched in the blood of 6 male, 6 female, and 1 hermaphrodite virgin." The woman took the blade out of Bob’s hands and hefted it.
"Was the blood that of humans?" She asked.
"Although the book did not specify human blood I thought it best to be safe."
"Aren’t you afraid that I will take the payment and not fulfill the contract?" The woman idly walked over to the couch and sat down, still toying with the sword.
"I have every confidence that you will. Because if you fail to, I will seal the conduit between your realm and this one."
"Bob," the woman said quietly. She placed the point of the blade on the plasteel table. "I just know you don’t mean to threaten me." She plunged the blade through the table like a knife through hot butter. "Do you?"
"I believe that it is best that we both know where we stand."
"Very well," the woman said as she stood up, "let us both understand: 400 hundred years ago when the Leiberman Diary was written, that piece of crap would have been worthy of my time. But things change."
"Veschca," Bob said hesitantly, "what are you trying to pull?"
"Bob," Veschca said striding over to the office door, "look around you. In times past the flow of energy was heavily constrained. In this age it flows freely. For example," she said as she opened the door.
Allison walked through the door as though she had been waiting right outside of it. She stopped halfway between Veshca and Bob. Her deep blue eyes had a glazed look about them as though she was not seeing what was around her.
"Take Allison, here for example," Veshca said. "She is filled with a longing that she knows is forbidden. That is what allows me into her most personnel being." Veshca turned to Allison. "Would you like to undress, dear."
"Oh, yes, Bob. Anything for you." Allison began taking her clothes off.
"She called you Bob."
"You still don’t get it, do you?" Veshca asked. "It’s you that she want’s Bob, a married man."