August 23, 2014
The Last Domine

I was on the street Wednesday when a man came up to me. He said, "I'm not the only one you've killed," and he pulled a gun and shot himself in the head before I knew what was going on.

Later that day I was out with Sarah and a woman asked me for the time. While I was looking she said, "I'm not the only one you've killed," and pulled a gun and shot herself in the head. Immediately two people from different directions shouted "I'm not the only one you've killed," and pulled a gun. I stopped the nearest one by snatching the gun away with my gift. The other person died. I told Sarah to run.

An older woman standing close to me lost her frightened look and pulled a gun. She said, "I'm not the on--" and I pulled the gun from her hand. I looked at Sarah who hadn't moved. The woman I just stopped let out a horrendous shriek and I heard the clatter of a gun hitting the pavement. Sarah yelled for me to hit her. I slammed the woman, careful of her head, against the nearest wall.

Sarah said, "She was faking it. I felt a burning hot, flash of hatred before I saw her pull a second gun."

Everyone cleared out except for the shooter I saved, and the attacker. I pulled the guns together and Sarah picked them up. She looked about for the Domine and found it a couple minutes later. It was stationary. Protectorate people watching it later reported that it was spent.

We took the woman away. Myron was going to question her, but she was more than willing to tell me why she attacked. It was the Heidi's mother. She had left one more Domine with her mother in case she died when I caught up with her. A Protectorate guardian came and took her mother away.

That night I woke up when Sarah climbed back into bed. She whispered into my ear, "I'm not the only one you've killed," and there was a deafening bang.

I woke up screaming, scaring Sarah out of a deep sleep. She sat up and held me and calmed me down.

Tags: aftermath, Domine, empathy (psychic), Heidi Caan, murder, The Protectorate, psychokinesis, revenge, Sarah Jayne.