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“Sybil! Use the brains that you have! He was the perfect subject for the test, and I think you’ll like to know that I recorded this session that we just finished today.” Dr. Caladasian said, “Everyone is talking about the blood moon. Your brother makes contact with it. We need to know why. I think it is a nightmare.” His smile was devious and iniquitous.
“And I think he is a messenger to the world that something bad is coming.” Sybil was torn between the loyalty to her brother and the desire to see what was recorded.
He placed his hand on her shoulder and said, “We are obligated to know.”
He raised his eyebrows and grinned. “Want to see the film?”
The scientist in her overpowered any sibling love. “Alright. We check the recording together, or not at all. Deal?”
“Deal.” They shook hands. “Okay, listen. The full moon following the harvest moon frequently is called the hunter’s moon, though the term blood moon occasionally is used. A totally eclipsed moon often has a red appearance, though the colors orange, yellow, gray, and even black are possible. Because the most common color of a totally eclipsed moon is red, in recent years people increasingly have called an eclipsed moon a blood moon.”
“I understand.”
He had a sparkle appear in his eyes, as his smile grew. “We’ve sealed the deal, my dear! We’ll take notes in the examination room as we observe the scan. Then later, we’ll compare them to see how they match up. Mum’s the word. Neither of us can tell anyone, not even Eric. It’s completely experimental, so we might not actually be able to see Eric’s dream as he saw it. The possibility though, is simply delicious. Wouldn’t you agree?”
Sybil laughed. “We’ll wait and see.”
Chapter Three
April 13th, 9 a.m.
Sybil sat with Dr. Caladasian in the hospital cafeteria. “Did you hear the news today?” she asked.
“No. What’s going on?”
“The Ukraine launched an operation to retake government buildings from pro-Russian separatists in the east side of their country today. The separatists had seized many buildings. As of yet, no troops have moved in. After flouting the Ukrainian government’s deadline to lay down their arms, the Russian government is warning the crisis could spark a civil war. The Ukrainian government asked the United Nations to authorize a peacekeeping force.”
“Those kinds of wars happen all the time.”
“This is worse. The American people should be prepared for the Wrath of God. We do not have all the time in the world before the Battle of Armageddon erupts that could kill off much of the human race on Earth.”
“Slow down girl,” he said. “You don’t know that.”
“Eric’s dreams are warnings.” She looked him in the eye. “The end is coming soon.”
“Even if Eric’s dreams are a warning, you don’t know when such a disaster would strike.”
“Well, whether 2015 or 2025, the world as we know it will end.”
“What we need is a world leader,” he said. “A friend of mine from military school later became a general with the US Army and if he is still alive, I do believe he can help solve the world’s problems. He once helped the Pentagon organize a German weapon system project and made it operational within a very short six months!”
“Somebody has to do something about the evil in this world as well.”
“I think he is the man for that, too.”
“If they don’t find someone quickly, this may be the beginning of the end. At any time, America will put boots on the ground. When they do, God help Russia.”
“If you want to get spooked, radical claims by many religious theorists is that a massive asteroid or comet, large enough to spell the end of the human race, will soon collide with Earth. Although the details are still a little fuzzy and the claims lack credentials, the massive popularity of the prediction has forced NASA to respond. I choose to ignore all of it, including that there is some kind of spiritual connection of Eric’s dreams to end times,” he said.
“There has to be something to it,” she said. “Both a solar eclipse and a total lunar eclipse are predicted soon.”
“I know. I read an article on it. It described both a total solar eclipse and total lunar eclipse soon. The sun turning to darkness is when the moon is directly between the Earth and sun is a total solar eclipse. The moon turning to blood is when the Earth is directly between the sun and the moon. The Earth’s shadow falling on the moon is a total lunar eclipse.”
“You know so much about it. I’m impressed.”
“Don’t make too big of a deal out of it. NASA says that there are about two lunar eclipses per year, but they are so subtle they’re barely visible and pretty much go unnoticed. Other eclipses cast a partial shadow on the moon, but don’t give it that blood moon color that only total eclipses do. They come around, on average, less than once a year.” The doctor patted her hand. “Don’t worry your pretty little head over it.”
“No worries.” She smiled a faint smile and tried not to worry.
“I’ve got to get back on the floor. I have other patients to care for as well as Eric.” The doctor stood and walked out.
Sybil followed him. “I’m going to go look at Eric’s last MRI.”
***
Out of nowhere, a loud thunder clapped and it began pouring rain outside. Suddenly, there was a loud clicking noise, like someone was throwing rocks at her car. Sybil was driving home from work when it happened.
Dents were forming all over her car. She saw that hail the size of golf balls was hitting her car. She swore. “It’s hailing. What next?”
Cars were skidding all over the street, some actually running into each other or skidding off the road.
Sybil gripped her steering wheel and held her car steady as she watched cars crashing around her.
She forgot that she had her radio on until she heard the announcer say, “We need to call a state of emergency.”
Sybil could not help but think of Eric’s dreams. She sensed that the disasters in the dreams were connected to the hail storm.
She drove home at twenty miles per hour as she listened to the hail stones bash her car like it was nothing. “Oh God, I think I need to learn to pray. Lord, take this storm away before I have to go back to work tomorrow.”
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