《Jeremy Case 》作者：- Gene DeWeese【EPUB】

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Scanned by Highroller Proofed by a ProofPack Proofer. It existed. It did not live. Without a host it had no life of its own no way to grow or change. It did not die even though its last host had been destroyed — just as all previous hostshad in the end been destroyed. It was not able to die . It remembered nothing although itcontained the memories of all its hosts. Without a host it had no thoughts of its own nomeans of thinking or remembering. It had kept those hosts alive one after the other through countless battles and accidentson countless hostile and unknown worlds but in the end it was always the same. Thedestruction of that last host had been little different from the others. In that last fieryuncontrolled descent it had been powerless as its host literally disintegrated from around it flaming away in a shower of incandescence. It had been powerless to do anythingbut withdraw as it had done so often before retreating within itself into a tiny self-contained universe invisible and indestructible a timeless bubble tucked away from the mainstream of existence isolated from the real universe except for the tendrils ofperception that were the only senses it possessed in its own right the only links to realitythat did not depend totally upon a host. It was powerless to do anything but exist — andwait . Wait — far longer than those who had been its hosts and who had sometimes imaginedthemselves to be its creators would have believed possible . It existed and waited neither alive nor dead while on the planet around it new life grewand evolved. New and different life… The First Death CHAPTER 1 To Jeremy Case airplanes had always been the best magic in the world. There had been an auraof time and distance about them all from the tiny single seaters that had buzzed overhead ontheir way to the local airport to the huge jets that left their ghostly vapor trails billowingthrough the stratosphere. To one day ride in one had been a dream of Jeremys for at leastfifteen of his twenty years. Now the dream had come true but the magic was not there. He was barely aware of the three dozenother passengers. He hardly felt the vague discomfort caused by wedging his hundred and eightypounds into the narrow seat and jamming his knees against the back of the seat ahead. All hecould see was the face that would be waiting for him at the end of the journey. All he couldfeel was the pain he knew would soon be with him. And all he could remember were the times hehad been with her. For more than five years until his father now remarried had come tocollect him she had been both his mother and his father—and he realized his friend. Now she was dying. There was something inside her something wrong and evil something thatshould not be there Something that Jeremy hated with all h