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Tyler waited until the Bluetooth connection in his car had disengaged before answering the call.
“Hi, Katie. Are you okay?”
“I’m fine. We just landed in Phoenix. Tyler, is everything okay with you?”
“Sure, why wouldn’t it be?”
“I don’t know. I just got these weird feelings about halfway through the flight here that made me think you were ... I don’t know, fearful is the best way I can describe it. Did something happen?”
Fearful. Apprehensive. Concerned. All would have been appropriate terms for how he had been feeling since realizing that he may have placed Katie into the crosshairs of whoever was trying to thwart their investigation into the Shoreline Mall case. Had she discerned that from his tone of voice or was she as aware of his feelings as he was becoming of hers?
“Now might not be the best time to discuss it,” he said. “Just answer me one question, are you making this trip of your own free will or were you coerced into it by someone?”
Katie laughed and said, “Tyler, seriously. Do you think that if someone was making me take this trip that they wouldn’t know if I told anyone they were doing so, or let me leave a detailed itinerary for you to follow? Of course, I’m doing it of my own free will. Why is that a concern?”
Tyler was silent for a moment as he entered the code on the panel to open Katie’s garage door. Once it started to rise, he said, “It’s this case I’m working. The only solid witness we had just up and disappeared today under circumstances that indicate she may not have had a choice in the matter.”
He found the key under the bumper of her truck as described, unlocked the door to the kitchen and returned the key.
“What does that have to do with me?” asked Katie. Tyler could hear other voices of her fellow passengers and assumed that she was deplaning as they spoke.
“Because I asked you about that car. The Corvette. It is a key lead for us in the investigation and this ‘higher power’, who we suspect are federal agents keep making any leads that we have vanish. I wanted to make certain that you providing me information to help track down the car didn’t shine a spotlight on you and bring you to their attention.”
The sounds of a busy airport terminal could once again be heard as Katie said, “Well I’m fine. Plus, I doubt that any information that I gave you will prove that valuable since you could have obtained the same knowledge through an internet search. I just saved you the effort. Tell me about this witness who disappeared. Are you sure the circumstances couldn’t be explained some other way?”
Tyler stood in Katie’s kitchen glancing at the printed itinerary laying on the counter under a remote and two keys on a keyring. One was a key to her condo’s exterior doors. The other had a worn-down Chevrolet emblem on it, which also made its purpose obvious to him. He smiled.
“How about if I go into more detail on that later,” he said. “When is your connecting flight? Oh, wait, here it is on your itinerary. Three thirty-five.”
“Right, but it’s in a different terminal, so would you mind talking to me as I walk there?”
“There’s nothing that I would like more.”
“So, you’re obviously in my condo,” she said. “I want to make you an offer.”
“What’s that?”
“Okay, I’m making some assumptions here, but I believe that you want to explore what is developing between us as much as I do...”
“No need to assume. Stand firm in your belief.”
“Good. Wearing your shirt has motivated me. I want to build sense memories of you. Do you want to do the same with me?”
“Sense memories?”
“Yes. I want to build memories of how you look, how you smell, how you feel, how you sound, everything. Do you have the same interest where I am concerned?”
“I hadn’t thought of it that way, but that’s exactly what I want to do.”
“Okay then. I sent you the pictures of me, and a couple of us together so you now have something to aid with your sight memories. I have those, plus some that Cile took of just you to help me with my sight memories. We can both hear each other’s voices to start building sound memories, but I won’t be satisfied with that alone. I want to have memories of how you sound when you sleep when you sing, and especially when you’re gasping for breath after we finally make love to one another...”
Tyler felt a stirring in his loins, but that was insignificant to the whirlwind that her words had created in his heart. He realized that she was vocalizing his own unspoken desires and dreams where Katie herself was concerned.
She continued, “That will have to wait until I return, as will making more touch and feeling memories. But I will be working on the scent memory in the meantime and I want to offer you the chance to do the same.”
Tyler chuckled, “Well you certainly have my interest piqued. What did you have in mind?”
Katie spoke to someone at the airport briefly before returning to her conversation with Tyler, “Well, since I absconded with your shirt, which still smells wonderfully of your scent, by the way, I thought it would only be fair if I offered you something of mine that might retain my scent. The problem is, I did my laundry last night, which eliminated almost all clothes of mine that still might hold my scent. Understand?”
“Okay, I’m following you so far. So, what’s your offer?”
“As I see it, you have two choices. The first one is to take the one article of clothing in my hamper that didn’t get washed because I was wearing them when I did my laundry...”
“Uh, you want me to take a pair of your underwear?” Tyler asked. “I don’t think that would be a good solution.”
“It does sound a bit perverted,” Katie began.
“As long as it was with your consent, I don’t think it could be classified as perverted.”
“Then what else would not make it a good solution?” she asked.
Tyler sighed and said, “I would be using your underwear to create a scent memory that hasn’t happened yet. I don’t know what you smell like down ... there. You know?”
Katie laughed and said, “Oh you are so right! I’m sorry for even mentioning it now. You must think I am one sick wench.”
“Not at all, and I hope I can get a raincheck on the offer once I have the real memory that your underwear will remind me of.”
“Now you better stop,” she said. “Thinking about making certain memories with you will get me into a state unsuitable for flying on a commercial aircraft. Although, I wouldn’t mind continuing a discussion on the subject tonight from my hotel room.”
“I think that can be arranged. So, what is my second choice for making a scent memory of you?”
“Huh? Oh yeah, I need to get my head away from you and my panties. Okay, the second choice you have is to sleep in my bed while I’m away. I mean I want you to sleep in my bed while I’m home too, of course, but if you sleep in it while I’m gone, you will be able to smell the remnants of my scent on the pillows and sheets. I didn’t wash linens last night either.”
“That actually sounds like a better choice right now. Plus, Taylor is in San Francisco until Saturday, so there is no reason for me to stay in our condo. Hey, I’ll tell you what, I’ll sleep in your bed with nothing on. You said that you normally sleep naked, so maybe I’ll give it a try in a bed that is accustom to it.”
“Oh, you bastard,” Katie laughed. “You do love to tease. Well, two can play at that game Buster, just remember that.”
“I look forward to all the teasing that you can conjure up, Miss Brandt. I am looking forward to it very much. I love challenges, remember?”
“Now I know why. It’s because you can be so darn challenging yourself Mr. Davis.”
“Miss Kettle, let me introduce you to Miss Pot.”
“Haha. I’m glad you’re in a better mood now. I was worried.”
“Knowing you’re safe will always improve my mood,” Tyler told her. “So, stay safe. Okay?”
“Nice move,” she said with a chuckle. “Nothing takes a girl’s mind off a romantic frolic with her beau better than him sounding just like her father.”
“Just do what your father says then. I’ll work on reconstituting your romantic frolic thoughts later tonight. How does that sound?”
“I have every confidence that you’ll be able to do that,” Katie said. “I’ll call when I land in Kansas City.”
“And I’ll answer. I better get back to work for now. Enjoy your flight.”
“I’ll try. Don’t let work get you down, Tyler. I’m sure everything will work out. Bye for now.”
“Bye Katie.”
As soon as their call ended, Tyler sent Katie a text.
TYLER:KATIE:
TYLER:I thought you weren’t competitive?
KATIE:I’m not. I guess I’m just more expressive than you.
TYLER:We’ll see about that. Thanks for being in my life.
KATIE:The pleasure is all mine. Take care of my guy.
TYLER:I will. You take care of my girl.
KATIE:Count on it.
TYLER:
Receiving no reply, Tyler assumed that Katie was now on the plane and had her phone turned off. He checked the itinerary for her departure time and saw that it was just about that time. He studied the details and found the information he was looking for. A scheduled flight time from Phoenix to Kansas City of just over two hours, followed by getting her rental car and driving an hour to the hotel. It might be tight, but he was confident that he could make things work out.
Katie hadn’t turned her phone off. She had put it into ‘airplane’ mode, which disabled the cellular signal, but retained the internet signal through the airplane’s onboard Wi-Fi service. She still had some communicating to do on this flight.
KATIE:Joey, what do you know about the clerk from the Tiffany’s store?JOEY:Can you be more specific?
KATIE:Where is she?
JOEY: I’m not sure right at this moment. I will need to check.
KATIE:Please do, and make certain that she is okay.
JOEY:What have you heard about her?
KATIE:I heard that she suddenly disappeared and I know that you had people monitoring her. Coincidence?
JOEY:Probably not. I’ll get back to you in five.
It took a little longer than five minutes. The flight attendants had just begun the beverage service for first-class when Katie received the text notification on her phone.
JOEY:She is currently on a cargo ship in LA Harbor. It will depart shortly before dusk with a load of gypsum bound for Indonesia.KATIE:Why is she on the ship? Was it her choice?
JOEY:It was the option she chose.
KATIE:What were her other options?
JOEY:The usual points of exile, Ascension Island, Guantanamo Bay, you know the list.
KATIE:Apparently your team felt there was a risk in her remaining here. Why?
JOEY:One of the investigators knows her and she was using that relationship to try and learn details that you wouldn’t want known.
KATIE:What had she divulged so far?
JOEY:Generalizations mostly, but the impressions you made on the clerk were discussed over the phone and the investigator was going to meet with her in person to try and get more details.
KATIE:I understand. Has there been any progress finding some way to shut down the investigation?
JOEY:Ideas have been bantered around, but nothing has been decided yet. Are you planning to come home for the Labor Day weekend? Cile said that you might.
KATIE:Yes, I’ll be there.
JOEY:We can discuss the ideas at that time between all of us.
KATIE:I will be bringing someone with me, so we’ll need to be careful what gets discussed in front of him.
JOEY:You’re bringing the guy that Cile mentioned? Your neighbor who is also one of the investigators on the case?
KATIE:Things between us are progressing to the point where I want him to meet my family. I think you all will like him.
JOEY:Well, he certainly won Cile over.
KATIE:Is JR going to come home for the weekend?
JOEY:No, he and Rockie are going to wait until Thanksgiving. They plan on coming then and staying through the New Year.
KATIE:That makes sense. Back to the clerk ... She’ll be taken care of, right?
JOEY:Of course. She really is getting a management position that she has been working towards and will be living in a tropical paradise. It’s no form of punishment, let me tell you.
KATIE: Do me a favor Joey, have someone let the investigators know that she is okay. They don’t have to tell them where she is, but my concern is that they will start digging deeper and causing more problems by trying to locate her.
JOEY:Let me think of a way to inform them without tipping our hand or making things worse.
KATIE:Thanks, Joey. Please keep me posted.
She closed her eyes and leaned back in her seat, intending to give more thought and consideration to the situation with her and the investigation that Tyler was involved in. That objective was challenged by one of the male flight attendant’s persistent flirting with the man sitting in the aisle seat across from hers. She kept her eyes closed and just listened to their little ‘mating ritual’.
Katie accepted that it would have been impossible in today’s society for anyone not to meet and interact with people whose sexual tendencies varied considerably from what was ‘natural’. No, she corrected herself, she ‘tolerated’ the fact, she didn’t ‘accept’ it.
She had participated in several ‘nature versus nurture’ debates on the subject of homosexuality. The scientific training that she had received was not in conflict with the moral conscience that her parents and the church had instilled into her. She had studied all species of animals and reviewed hundreds of research reports on genetics and same-sex relationships in humans and other animals. All the credible research had shown that same-sex sexuality appeared to be genetically influenced, but not genetically determined. Katie also knew that other complex human behaviors, such as smoking, alcohol use, personality, and even job satisfaction all had some genetic components that influenced them.
One mystery the researchers had never solved is how genetic variants associated with having same-sex partners could persist across generations. Such variants would presumably get weeded out if men and women who have sex with people of the same sex don’t have children or have fewer children than the average person. Thus, if homosexuality had a specific genetic component, in any species of animal, the likelihood was that these animals would have become extinct through evolution.
Katie knew that most men, and a few other girls, had found her attractive. Two of her female classmates at Texas A&M had tried to entice her into “exploring” a physical relationship, but she had absolutely no desire or interest in another female’s body. Thinking back on her few physical relationships with men, she admitted that there was little attraction in those instances as well. Her body had expressed ‘needs’ that she had unsuccessfully attempted to satisfy through these men, but nothing more.
In contrast, the attraction that she felt towards Tyler transcended the physical. She couldn’t deny that she felt a physical desire for him that went beyond her body’s own ‘needs’. This was more natural, and instinctive in its effect on her. She had studied gibbons, the mammal related closest to humans that mated for life, and smiled as she thought about telling Tyler that he was her gibbon mate. Most human cultures had rejected sexual dimorphism over the generations, but Katie almost instinctively felt the need to be as desirable as she could be to Tyler, and only him. This was something so foreign to her on a personal level that she laughed to herself when remembering how she had flashed her derriere at Tyler the one morning that they had woken up together.
She closed her eyes and leaned back in her seat. She had almost two hours of flight time to think of her desires for Tyler. She wondered if he was thinking about her.
“You won’t find her. She was a real angel.”
“She glowed.”
“She didn’t seem real.”
Tyler sat at the dining room table in Katie’s condo, studying his laptop and highlighting each of these comments in the statements from the witness interviews that he was reviewing again. There were more than seventy-five people who the sheriff’s office had spoken to that day who claimed to have been in the food court and witnessed the actual shooting, or said that they had seen the woman at some point within the mall that day.
Tyler, like many in law enforcement, considered eyewitness accounts from the average citizen to be less than ten percent reliable. This is why he always looked for commonalities in what people claimed to have witnessed because these observations were historically much more accurate and useful to an investigation. Consequently, he had gone back to the statements in search of anything that multiple witnesses had all reported seeing.
He had started by focusing on the two dozen witnesses who the sheriff’s investigators had verified to have been in the food court when the gunman had fired the shotgun into the glass wall of the mezzanine level of the mall. They all claimed that the sound of the gunshot is what had first brought their attention to the shooter and that they hadn’t noticed the woman before she fired her first shot at the gunman. Some of the witnesses even claimed that they saw her “just appear out of nowhere” that day.
Tyler knew that a mandorla aureola was the radiance of luminous cloud which, in paintings of sacred personages, surrounds the whole figure. He considered the descriptions of the witnesses to the glow that they claimed emanated from the woman in the mall and thought that it would be easy to dismiss their perceptions as pollen or dust particles suspended in the air as the cause for a diffraction of sunlight that produced some coronae around her.
However, his memories of the visible field of energy, or whatever it was that he had often seen surrounding Katie prevented him from being prematurely dismissive of what the witnesses had described. How could he believe what he sometimes saw as a glowing field around Katie was real, and ignore what the witnesses claimed to have seen that day at the mall?
Philosophers, theologians, psychologists, authors, and artists had varying opinions on what the differences were between a person’s spirit and their soul. The human spirit was generally seen as the heavenly component of a person’s non-material make up - the part that is impersonal or universal. Whereas souls were the personal element unique to each individual.
These differences resulted in several debates through the ages related to whether it was a person’s spirit or their soul that produces the mandorla aureola that frequently accompanied testimonies about miraculous sightings and holy visions.
Tyler now questioned whether both a person’s spirit and their soul could produce a visible glow. He thought first about what he had seen around Katie, and how he had felt that her glow emanated from her only for him; that it was a personal part of her on display for only him to see. Since Cile or no one else had ever mentioned seeing the glow at the times when he had witnessed it, he felt confident in his belief that it was her soul producing the glow. The term “soulmate” came to mind, and that made him smile.
However, the glow that witnesses reported appearing around the Shoreline Angel had to be different. In that instance, the situation with the woman and the shooter was not a personal one, but rather one of a more universal concern for the safety of others. Had some component of the woman’s spirit become so alive and active in that situation to make it visible to those around her? He wanted to find this woman more than ever, but he had to admit to himself that his desire to know her was driving him now more than any sense of duty or interest in justice.
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