The Beast of 1977 (Book 1)

Chapter 27

"I need to speak with Doctor Sanyupta, please! Doctor Benjamin Sanyupta!" Jeremiah intently shouted over the phone to the operator.

With a clutter of papers in both hands and his eyes firmly locked on the clock above the door, Jeremiah anxiously awaited the doctor's speedy response.

"Uh, yes, good morning," he jittered, dropping his papers flat on the floor beneath his feet. "Or should I say, good evening, Doctor? Sorry to disturb you. I was just calling to fill you in on a couple of patients that require some much needed attention."

"I see. What can I assist you with, Doctor?" Sanyupta replied, sounding as if he had just awoke from sleeping.

"Well, first I wanted to discuss Isaac Mercer. You won't believe this, but, Isaac was kidnapped two days ago."

First, there was a long gasp, then Sanyupta appallingly uttered, "Oh my."

"Don't worry, I believe he is fine. According to reports, somehow he managed to elude his captor. Apparently he was abducted by the B.O.D. kidnapper."

"I'm sorry, the who?"

"The Broad Open Daylight kidnapper," Levin sighed while rolling his eyes. "I apologize for the acronym usage."

"Ahh, I understand. Tell me, how was Isaac able to gain his freedom from this individual?"

"It's still unknown at this time. But, the kidnapper was found murdered inside the same home where he took and murdered his own victims."

"Murdered? By whom," Sanyupta inhaled.

"More like a what," Jeremiah said. "The police say than an animal, a very large animal, killed this man, along with six others up along the Cuyahoga Valley."

"And Isaac was able to escape unharmed?"

"That's correct. I would love to know just how he was able to do so."

"Wait a minute, just what was Isaac doing up in Cuyahoga Falls?"

"I'm not quite sure, sir."

"Are you seeing him again this month?"

"As a matter of fact, he has an appointment on the 28th. But I wanted to bring that incident to your attention, as well as a curiosity. I saw Isaac last week, and I was not aware that he was bilingual."

"Ahh," Sanyupta chuckled, "I see you have come across that phenomenon as well. I am afraid that Isaac does not speak another language, rather, he is speaking backwards."

Jeremiah's mouth grew dry at that second, trying to find the words to explain his sudden confusion.

"Backwards, you say?"

Sanyutpta sounded confident. "I too was taken aback at first. He and I were having a conversation one day back in December, and out of nowhere, he begins to speak what I assumed at first to be a completely different vernacular. I replayed the tape recorder over again during our discussion when

exactly was he saying?

day were something to the effect of structures collapsing and a fateful train ride. Once again, random gibberish. Just the rants of a person who has endured a

on a sheet of paper that was lying on his desk in front

Jeremiah kept on speaking with Sanyupta. His lips were moving, but his mind was far from the conversation. Even

even with the knowledge that Isaac was free from his captor, Jeremiah could still see the young man in some sort of distress; an agony that he himself would fear

his aching neck, Isaac stood in the back corner of the elevator and watched with hungry, scurvy eyes as the overweight, young white woman in front of

Isaac scratched his unshaven face up and down as if his own skin were on fire. In his eyes there was really nothing attractive about the woman. He

The woman nervously glanced back at the young man while gripping her purse that was wrapped

When his nose could no longer breathe in any more fumes, his body unclenched itself. Isaac leaned up against the wall and stuffed his cold hands into

instant the door slid open, like a passing wind, the woman sailed out and into the hallway as though she were being

swollen face. Realizing that he had arrived at his floor, the young man nonchalantly limped out into the quiet warmness of the soft-colored

pointing people in the right direction lined the walls that young Mercer passed by as his head hung low to the carpeted floor beneath

see if he had arrived at the correct locale, Isaac pushed open the door and noticed right away Doctor Levin talking on

"Isaac?" Jeremiah choked, hanging up the

cracked a lazy smile while dropping himself

beside Isaac, took off

Without looking in Levin's direction, Isaac

"Some stuff is a helluva of an understatement, my friend." Jeremiah exclaimed while examining Isaac's face. "Isaac...I honestly don't know what to say. I...I can't believe you're here. How did you even

to talk to." Isaac lethargically replied, sounding as though he were ready to fall right asleep. "I've been freebasing coffee ever since this morning. I don't wanna go

while glancing at the clock above his head, "I have an appointment with a patient in about twenty minutes or so, but

belly laugh before saying, "Man, everyone has been asking me that

"Well, what was the last thing you remember? The news keeps saying that you were seen over in Cuyahoga Falls. What were you doing out

the floor in front of the doctor. There was so much rambling chaos cluttering his brain

someone up there. Someone very important," Isaac carried on. "I had to see

you?" Jeremiah shrugged

pointed to himself. "Just this morning, I saw how she was made, and I needed

"I take it

the doctor a strange scowl, as if the word were completely foreign

to understand, there's no such thing as that. It's nothing more

back into his coat pockets. He then closed his eyes, inhaled the fresh new carpet smell of

"You mean back at Leroy

"Oh...I

settling into the leather

"Me and Lynn were arguing Thanksgiving afternoon. So I got pissed and went

since October." Isaac steadily explained.

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