He has a look of waiting, like when he checks
the stopwatch, plotting the charts, figuring equations.
Adam is always there to perceive the event--he
sees it on the sidewalk or hears it on the radio
or feels it in his skin. Then the echo rushes back
to have him sense it too.
He says, "At first, I think I am god. Then
I realize I'm not father; I only have half his
power." He slowly learns to time the distance
between repeating events. "I'm tied to time,
I predict the future, but I can't cause it."
Adam doesn't know why the echoes follow him. He
has a look of waiting, like when he sits all day
with the stopwatch, wondering if today everything
changes forever and frees him from his destiny.
Until the echo occurs--on schedule. From his charts,
I see tonight is the full distance from stabbing
to stabbing and half-way to the next time his car
kills a man. |
