My Blue Eyed Girl Ch. 10

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[Side chamber]

Off in a side chamber were two young men named Angelo and Christian. The two were looking at each statue as they talked.

"Can you believe this? We're hunting statues".

"Better than chasing lava snakes."

"Actually, lava snakes weren't that bad."

The two then separated to cover more ground.

[Cave]

The torch on Christian's rifle flickers, then he hears the sound of stone grating on stone.

"Who's there? Is someone there? Angelo. Angelo!"

A snarling Angel appears right in front of him. Looking more like a beast then a stone Angel.

[Side chamber]

"Christian, is that you?"

" Angelo, come and see this." Angelo hears Christians voice through his radio calling to him.

"What is it?"

"Just come and see it."

"It's not a school trip. Just tell me."

"No, really. Come and see."

Having given in to Christians calls Angelo turned and headed for where he last was. Looking around he turned his back and suddenly the snarling Angel pounces again.

[Entrance chamber]

I heard the sound of gunfire and it was not at all what I had expected. When you hear a gun fire on T.V. it's loud and maybe even startling but as soon as it's done it's all but forgotten. But when you hear one live and just out of your site it's not the same. When the sound is over it stays with you, ringing in your ears, as the blood pumped in your ears as well. It was almost deafening and had it not been for Rivers hand that grabbed my arm and pulled me with her I may have stayed rooted to my spot forever. But in a blink we were standing before Bob who seemed to be the one who had fired his gun.

"Sorry, sorry. I thought. I thought it looked at me." Bob said looking rather guilty at having shot up the wrong statue not that I could blame him since they are all rather creepy.

"We know what the Angel looks like. Is that the Angel?"

"No, sir. " More guilt.

"No, sir, it is not. According to the Doctor, we are facing an enemy of unknowable power and infinite evil, so it would be good, it would be very good, if we could all remain calm in the presence of decor." Octavian snapped at Bob as though it was his fault for being afraid, and as his shoulders gave even more in guilt I moved forward putting my had on his arm and smiling at him as best I could.

"What's your name? " The Doctor asked.

"Bob, sir. "

"Ah, that's a great name. I love Bob. " The Doctor smiled at him as if he hoped it would help the young man feel better.

"It's a Sacred Name. We all have Sacred Names. They're given to us in the service of the Church." Octavian said for Bob as if he could not tell us himself, as if he was too incompetent to.

"Sacred Bob. More like Scared Bob now, eh?" The Doctor joked ignoring Octavin altogether.

"Yes, sir. "

"Ah, good. Scared keeps you fast. Anyone in this room who isn't scared is a moron. Carry on." The Doctor said with a sweep of his arm and a big but serious smile.

"We'll be moving into the maze in two minutes. You stay with Christian and Angelo. Guard the approach."

As we began to walk away I smiled at Bob and told him to be safe and I would see him again soon.

[Maze]

"Isn't there a chance this lot's just going to collapse? There's a whole ship up there." Amy asked as she looked up at the stone ceiling above us.

"Incredible builders, the Aplans." River said off handedly.

"Had dinner with their Chief Architect once. Two heads are better than one." Said the Doctor from in front of us.

"What, you mean you helped him?" Asked Amy.

"I just think he trying to show off Amy. Takes us somewhere and then tell us he helped build it." I said with a giggle that had both Amy and River doing the same.

"No, I mean he had two heads. That book, the very end, what did it say?" Changing the subject only made Amy and I giggle more.

"Hang on."

"Read it to me."

"What if we had ideas that could think for themselves? What if one day our dreams no longer needed us? When these things occur and are held to be true, the time will be upon us. The time of Angels."

The passage give me the chills. What kind of ideas could think for themselves? Not any good ones I would think.

[Cave]

"Hey, Angelo, Christian, where are you?" Bob asked over the radio.

[Maze]

"Are we there yet? It's a hell of a climb." Amy stated, though I was surprised to find it was not a complaint.

"The Maze is on six levels, representing the ascent of the soul. Only two levels to go." replied River as we continued to move and she took scans, of what I'm not sure.

"Lovely species, the Aplans. We should visit them some time. " The Doctor said off handedly.

"I thought they were all dead?" Asked Amy with a funny look on her face, her question had me looking at her funny but waiting for the Doctors reply.

"So is Virginia Woolf. I'm on her bowling team. Very relaxed, sort of cheerful. Well, that's having two heads, of course. You're never short of a snog with an extra head."

"Doctor, there's something. I don't know what it is." River said looking very confused.

"Yeah, there's something wrong. Don't know what it is yet, either. Working on it. Of course, then they started having laws against self-marrying. I mean, what was that about? But that's the Church for you. Er, no offence, Bishop."

"Quite a lot taken, if that's all right, Doctor. Lowest point in the wreckage is only about fifty feet up from here. That way."

"The Church had a point, if you think about it. The divorces must have been messy." Amy smiled thinking about two headed divorces.

But as they talked and we continued to walk and look around one thought keep moving though my head. Two heads…They had two head. As odd as it may sound I wasnt so much thinking about what a being with two head would be or even look like. Though I'm sure I would later, I was thinking about the fact that the statues around us did not in fact have two heads. I'm truly not sure we missed it but if I was right, and God I hope I'm not then we are in a maze of Angles.

"Er Doctor, if the Aplans have two heads, why do all the statues just have one head?"