The Castrator by Atanas Marinov, Atanas Marinov, Atanas Marinov, Atanas Marinov (short books for teens txt) 📕

HE WANTED US TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE HAD GONE THROUGH IN HIS ATTEMPTS TO FIND DELIVERANCE. PERHAPS HIS SOUL WAS IN HELL, AND PERHAPS EVEN HIS SPIRIT HAD CEASED TO EXIST! BUT ONE THING WAS CERTAIN - THERE I KNEW THAT FELISTER HAD BEEN DOOMED FROM BIRTH - SEEING HIS OWN DISAPPEARANCE AS A MESSAGE FOR OTHERS, MANY, MANY OTHERS.

WE DECIDED TO SUMMON THE GUARDIAN ANGEL AND THEN SOMETHING UNHEARD OF HAPPENED. I LOOKED AT GUS BENZOUR'S FACE - IT EXPRESSED GREAT SADNESS DESPITE ITS DECAY AND DEFORMITY. THEN I CLEARLY FELT THE CHILLS ON MY BODY...

FELISTER'S STRANGE FACE WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN, AND GUS BENZOIR HAD MANAGED TO FOOL US WELL - PROBABLY BETTER THAN EVEN HE HIMSELF. BUT SOMETHING DIDN'T ADD UP IN THE WHOLE STORY - IF THERE WAS ACTUALLY A WAY TO SUMMON A GUARDIAN ANGEL - YOU NEEDED A SPIRITUALLY PURE PERSON, AND THEN ZONARA APPLIED THE ARLO HIMSELF - WELL, HE WASN'T EXACTLY AN INFANT, BUT HE WAS OVER TWENTY-FIVE AND ...

TO MY AMAZEMENT, THINGS WORKED OUT AND I BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT OTHER THINGS WERE VALUABLE IN ALL THIS - PURITY AND FAITH WERE REQUIRED.

- "I CAN REVEAL UNEARTHLY SECRETS TO YOU," THE GUARDIAN ANGEL REPLIED, "BUT I CAN ALSO SHOW YOU THINGS BEFORE YOUR EYES THAT ARE NOT OF SUCH VALUE, BUT TO MOST MERE MORTALS ARE OF IMPORTANCE."

CERTAINLY THIS CREATURE'S BEARING WAS MAJESTIC. I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE EXTREMELY PURE AURA IT GAVE OFF - IT WAS SIMPLY WONDERFUL AND SPIRITUALIZING, FILLED WITH EXTREMELY POSITIVE VIBES.

THE ROCKERS WERE LIKE FROZEN AND DEFINITELY DARED NOT ROAR, LEST THEY SPOIL THE MAGIC.

- "TELL ME WHERE FELISTER DREW HIS STRENGTH FROM HERE - ON EARTH," I TURNED TO THE ANGEL.

THIS PARTICULAR QUESTION WAS PROMPTED BY THE EXTREMELY LARGE-SCALE GAMES OF FELISTER HIMSELF, WHICH I SUSPECTED WERE MUCH DEEPER THAN THE NORMAL MIND WAS CAPABLE OF ACCEPTING.

- "SINCE YOU HAVE SUMMONED ME ARIGHT, YOU WILL LEARN ALL THIS," REPLIED THE ANGEL SADLY.

SUDDENLY IMPRESSIVE PICTURES BEGAN TO APPEAR IN MY MIND'S EYE, SHOWING THE WHOLE OF FELISTER'S ACTIVITIES IN REGARD TO THE GRAND ORGANIZATION OF HIS KIND OF BUSINESS-SOME OF THEM FAMILIAR TO ME, OTHERS SPRINGING INTO MY MIND FOR THE FIRST TIME.

I EASILY LEARNED THAT THE POLITICIANS IN NOVA SCOTIA WERE NOT ALTOGETHER INDIFFERENT TO HIS MONEY, WHICH APPARENTLY DROVE CERTAIN MECHANISMS WITH THE INDIAN RESERVATIONS. I SAW HOW HE HAD CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS UP HIS SLEEVE AND HOW HE PLAYED THE UNIONS. BUT I ALSO SAW A DIRTY SECRET - FELISTER HAD LOST PARTS OF HIS SOUL THE FIRST TIME HE MISINVOCATION WHEN HE LOST CONTROL. I ALSO SAW THE STRANGE METAMORPHOSIS IN HIS MIND - ALL THE RESULTING SUFFERING AND ANGUISH, AND FELISTER KNEW EVEN THEN THAT HE HAD LOST THE BATTLE. SO MANY VICISSITUDES OF FATE! SO MANY FALSE IDEALS!

AFTER A WHILE MORE THE ANGEL DISAPPEARED, BUT BEFORE HE DID SO HE ADDED THAT THE LATEST FACTS SURROUNDING FELISTER'S LIFE WERE TO BE FOUND IN A NEW SCOTIA IN CANADA.

IT TOOK US TOO LONG TO RECOVER FROM THE SURPRISE - SO MANY DIFFERENT SITUATIONS STRANGELY INTERTWINED. IT CAME OUT THAT FELISTER COULD AFFORD A LOT MORE THAN WHAT WE ASSUMED HE WAS CAPABLE OF.

BUT WHAT THE ANGEL REVEALED TO US CONCERNING OUR DESTINIES EXCEEDED MY WILDEST DREAMS. FELISTER HAD BROUGHT US TOGETHER BECAUSE ONLY AS A TEAM COULD WE REVEAL HIS DESIGN. IT TURNED OUT THAT HE HAD BEEN USING A SECRET MAGICAL CODE, AND IN THE END IT WAS HIS BURNING DESIRE FOR THE DEMON.

TRUTH BE TOLD, I FINALLY REALIZED CLEARLY THAT FELISTER'S LIFE HAD BEEN PRETTY MEANINGLESS, BUT MANY HAD LIVED AND MANAGED TO SURVIVE UNDER HIM - THAT WAS HIS MAIN MERIT.

STILL, MOST LIKELY - BESIDES THE GRIMOIRE, WHICH WAS OBVIOUSLY VALUABLE AND EXPENSIVE, FELISTER HAD PROBABLY LEFT SOMETHING ELSE BEHIND.

THE ROCKERS DIDN'T SEEM DISAPPOINTED AT ALL, THOUGH - ON THE CONTRARY - THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GET RICH LOOT IN A NEW SCOTIA, BUT THEY ALSO CLEARLY REALIZED THAT SOME OF THE DRUGS HAD BEEN PLACED BY FELISTER HIMSELF.

FELISTER EMBANKS HAD LIVED AND DIED AS HE HAD WISHED, BUT STRANGELY WHY THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE TO THE STORY ELUDED US.

HOW HE HAD ESCAPED THE RETRIBUTION OF THE CARTELS, BUT HAD RECEIVED IT AT THE HAND OF HIS COMPANION, ZONARA. IT WAS ONLY AFTER I UNDERSTOOD HER ANGELIC NATURE THAT THINGS BEGAN TO FALL INTO PLACE. SHE HAD INDEED MANAGED TO PREVENT MANY MORE DISASTERS. THE STRANGE THING WAS THAT THE BANDITS WHO FOLLOWED US, WHETHER WILLINGLY OR NOT, WERE AS IF IN A DAZE AND COULD NOT RESIST.

PERHAPS BLUEBIRD HAD WANTED ME TO KNOW THAT, TOO...

OUR DEPARTURE FOR CANADA WAS PROBABLY REALLY THE LAST PART OF OUR JOURNEY, WHICH WAS TO REVEAL THE DARKEST PARTS OF FELISTER'S CHARACTER. HOW MANY FALSE HOPES WERE DASHED IN HIS SLAUGHTERHOUSE? HOW MANY LIVES WERE USED TO FURTHER ...

CANADA WAS WONDERFUL, BUT HERE I REALIZED THAT OF MY COMPANIONS, ONLY ZONARA AND ARLO WERE LEFT. THE MONEY THE ROCKERS GOT THROUGH THE DEMON'S INVOCATION, WHICH POINTED OUT TO US SOME HIDDEN RICHES - AND MORE SPECIFICALLY, WHERE THE BLUEBIRD'S GOLD WAS BURIED, WAS ENOUGH FOR THEM, AND THEY WENT BACK TO THEIR OLD HABITS OF MOTORCYCLE PLUNDER.

- "THAT'LL DO US FOR QUITE A WHILE," REGINALD CALLED, AND THE OTHER TWO AGREED, "YOU MIGHT AS WELL MOVE ON TO A NEW SCOTCH-PLANT ON YOUR OWN."

BLUEBIRD'S GOLD WAS RIGHT IN LA POINTE CEMETERY - UNDER A TREE - ABOUT - THREE OR FOUR FEET DEEP, APPARENTLY THE OUTLAW HAD BURIED IT THERE FAIRLY RECENTLY - MAYBE A YEAR OR SO AGO. WHEN WE CLEARED THE DIRT, WE FOUND IT - IT PROBABLY HAD AT LEAST TEN POUNDS OF NET WEIGHT, WHICH WAS ESTIMATED AT OVER SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. IN THE PAST, FEW OF HIS ANCESTORS HAD CONSIDERED GOLD TO BE OF ANY VALUE AT ALL, BUT IN THESE TIMES, BLUEBIRD HAD DECIDED TO REASSURE HIMSELF BY SECURING CAPITAL AND LEAVING THE RESERVATION LANDS FOR GOOD - YET FROM WHAT THE DEMON HAD SAID, BLUEBIRD COULD TELL THAT BLUEBIRD HAD SENSED THE CHANGING SITUATION AND BIG BROTHER'S AMBITIONS TO COMPLETELY SUPPLANT HIM IN RUNNING THE GAMBLING BUSINESS.

BY A STRANGE COINCIDENCE WE LEARNED THAT SINGING SHADOW HAD DIED AND BEEN BURIED ACCORDING TO INDIAN TRADITIONS.

NO MATTER HOW MUCH I BEAT MY HEAD, I DIDN'T REALIZE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. WHY RAUL HAD BECOME THE SCAPEGOAT AND WHAT HAD PROMPTED FELISTER TO HAVE THEM SHOOT AT HIM. BUT A SUDDEN MEMORY THAT POPPED INTO MY MIND GAVE ME A REASONABLE ENOUGH EXPLANATION.

- "LIFE IS NOT FOR THE WEAK," HE HAD PRONOUNCED HIMSELF. "WE MUST DO OUR PART AND THAT IS PARAMOUNT TO OUR SURVIVAL. TAKE A CUE FROM THE PIGS THEMSELVES - THEY ARE SO EMOTIONALLY INTENSE! AND THEY KNOW HOW TO GET THEIRS!"

ONE OF THE STRANGEST TRICKS THAT WAS IMPLEMENTED BY THE GREEDY BREEDER WAS TO GIVE MARIJUANA TO HIS PIGS. THIS PRACTICE WAS NOT UNIQUE, BUT IT WAS BY NO MEANS COMMON - GAINING WEIGHT ON THE ANIMAL ITSELF MEANT MORE FENTANYL-OPIATE INJECTIONS TO DRIVE THE BUSINESS FURTHER AND FURTHER. FELISTER HAD ELEVATED THIS PRACTICE INTO A VERITABLE CULT!

 

[1] Don Dickerman's book "Keep the Pigs Out: How to Slam the Door on Satan and His Demons and Keep Your Spiritual House Clean" is about such things.

[2]  Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan talks about this.

[3] Elizander's explanations are a carefully researched and acted upon real technique that is a combination of Falun Dafa's understanding of some specific qigong practices and more specifically possible deviations from them, Don Juan's Teachings on Dreaming Doors, and Frank and Ida Mae Hammond's related to demonic possession and the very nature of demons as described in their book Pigs in the Living Room and specifically in Chapter Ten Demonic Manifestations.

[4] Divination is a form of communicating with the afterlife by summoning the spirits of dead people, demons, angels and so on, and is commonly used by practitioners of magic.

[5] Invocation means summoning.

THE RESIDENCY

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: THE RESIDENCY

 

IN CANADA, THE THREE OF US DECIDED TO PART WAYS-BUT THERE WAS A PLACE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND THAT'S WHERE WE REUNITED. EVERY DETAIL OF THE BREEDER'S PAST LIFE WAS CAPTURED IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF THAT PLACE - IT WAS THE FACE OF THE TOWN OF KAMLOOPS.

AND FROM ALL THAT WE HAD COME TO, WE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT FELISTER HAD BRIEFLY RESIDED HERE, AND FROM THEN ON HIS TRAIL WAS IRRETRIEVABLY LOST. AND NO ONE COULD REMEMBER ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT HIMSELF.

THERE WAS AN OLD BUILDING ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE TOWN THAT MIGHT HAVE BELONGED TO HIM-YOU ASK HOW WE KNEW. HERE THE INTUITION OF ARLO, WHO HAD RESOLVED TO TAKE A MORE ACTIVE PART IN DISCOVERING HIS SECRET, HELPED EXCEEDINGLY.

THE HOUSE WAS IN TYPICAL VICTORIAN STYLE - QUITE BEAUTIFUL AND BLOOD-CHILLING. WE WALKED AROUND IT SEVERAL TIMES FROM A VERY DISCREET DISTANCE SO AS NOT TO ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF THE NEIGHBOURS.

IT WOULD NOT BE SUPERFLUOUS TO MENTION THE IMPRESSIVE THREE-STOREY BUILDING WITH A BRICK FACADE, WHICH WAS NOW RATHER RUN DOWN AND YET ITS APPEARANCE WAS A PECULIAR MIX BETWEEN NOSTALGIC ATMOSPHERE AND MELANCHOLY. APPARENTLY WE HAD TO GET INSIDE, BUT WE STILL DIDN'T KNOW HOW, AND THERE WAS NO DOORMAN ANYWHERE. HER GARDEN WAS DEFINITELY NEGLECTED, AND HER LAWN WAS MOWED REGULARLY ONLY THANKS TO THE

- "A TRUE SEEKER SHOULD HAVE A SENSE OF THIS," ARLO SAID, WRINKLING HIS NOSE, "I SMELL FELISTER HAS BEEN HERE A LONG TIME - HIS AURA IS STILL IN THE AIR."

FATHER TOBIAS DIDN'T WANT TO STAND THERE WITH HIS ARMS FOLDED, BUT HAD DECIDED TO HELP US. WE CONTACTED HIM IN A VERY SPECIFIC WAY. THE ANGELIC AURA OF MY COMPANIONS WAS APPARENTLY TRANSMITTED EVEN THROUGH THE TELEPHONE RECEIVER. THIS FIELD OF RADIANT LIGHT WAS IMPRESSIVE.

IT WAS INTERESTING THAT FATHER TOBIAS'S INITIALLY STERN VOICE GRADUALLY SOFTENED AND HE AGREED TO TELL US SOME THINGS HE HAD ASSUMED ABOUT THE FELISTER.

- THIS CONVERSATION IS NOT FOR OVER THE PHONE, HE HAD SAID BUSINESSLIKE, BUT WHEN WE EXPLAINED THAT WE WERE NOW AT A GREAT DISTANCE FROM THE ABBEY AND HAD FOLLOWED FELISTER'S STORY SOMEWHAT, HE FELL SILENT FOR A MOMENT AND ... SAID VERY CAREFULLY:

- I FEEL A STRANGE MIXING OF ENERGIES, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE, WHICH BOTH PASS THROUGH AND SEEM TO FLOW INTO ME. I WILL SEND YOU A CODED MESSAGE LATER AND THAT IS ALL I CAN DO FOR YOU. THE TRUE SPIRITUAL SEEKER MUST TAKE CARE OF HIS OWN SALVATION.

WHILE WAITING FOR THE CODED MESSAGE THE ABBOT PROMISED TO SEND AFTER ALL, WE SLIPPED IN THROUGH THE BACK ENTRANCE - ME, ZONARA AND ARLO. IT WAS NOT SO MUCH EXCITING AS DANGEROUS. PERHAPS FELISTER HAD CAST PROTECTIVE SPELLS THAT WERE STILL IN EFFECT, OR PERHAPS THERE WAS SOMETHING TRULY DANGEROUS AND MALEVOLENT IN THE HOUSE. BUT THAT WAS PURE CONJECTURE. FROM THE ROCKERS I HAD EQUIPPED MYSELF WITH A SPECIAL SPITZER WITH WHICH I COULD OPEN VARIOUS LOCKS, AND THIS PROVED DECISIVE FOR LATER ON.

I LOOKED UP AT THE SKY FOR A MOMENT - I DON'T KNOW IF I WAS MYSELF