Chapter 26: The Person Absent from Memory
Upon first inspection, there was nothing remarkable about the scene of a middle-aged man sitting on a bed reading some newspaper. Yet, the room was bathed in darkness too deep for newspaper reading.
Furthermore, the man had held this posture from when Miles started surfing the web – a feat impossible for any average human to endure without changing.
The sole alteration was the man’s migration from the living room sofa to the bedroom’s bedside.
A simple shift in location from remote to near, yet this reduction in space didn’t instill a sense of comfort. Instead, an unexplainable sense of menace and fear surfaced.
Why would his father choose to sit by him and read a newspaper without any apparent reason?
Had he displayed this habit in the past?
Eyeing the portrait affixed to the room’s wardrobe and tuning into Rain’s frantic voice, Miles sensed that something was awry.
If Rain’s revelation about the file was factual, could this man genuinely not be his father?
He appeared to be, yet, he didn’t.