Image Carriers. Genel Anthony
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was thinking that we need to see old Uncle Tom,” he said. “Why?”
“There’s something not right. I want to go over again and maybe I will pick up more,” Joey said. “I think I believe him; I think our Uncle Tom is on to something.”
Adam received an email from Carol advising that his client has finally arrived.
Joey stood up as Evelyn, an ex-client of Adam’s walked in. Evelyn also knew Joey very well and didn’t have the patience to tolerate his irritating behaviours at times, and was quick to dismiss him. Joey smiled at her and immediately began carrying on with his body language by bowing and trying to distress her, knowing very well that he was irritating her. But Evelyn stood her ground, moving towards Adam and ignoring Joey completely. She then muttered for Joey to leave the room.
Evelyn, as they came to know, had a tendency to involve herself with silly things, such as ordering something by mail and then not knowing what to do with the item once it was delivered. She would then offer it to either Adam or Carol, as they were her only friends. On this occasion, she wanted to use Adams office address for her mail to be delivered. She was using a post office box before, but fell out with the postal manager over the annual cost and promptly cancelled her dealings with them. Adam was reluctant to allow this, but ended up agreeing that it could be a temporary measure, and that she should use her own address or find another post box.
Evelyn is an Image Carrier. She can see things others can’t. Adam believes she is very unique and rates in the middle to high numbers of the Image Carriers’ rating scale. Unfortunately, or fortunately for Evelyn, she shuns her gift and wants nothing to do with it. She told Adam that it scares her and all she wants to do is live a normal life. It is ironic, as Evelyn lives far from a normal life. Her life is a total secret, and nobody knows what she gets up to during the day. She doesn’t work or socialise much. She is a loner. Not long ago, Evelyn got quite upset with Carol when Carol offered to give her some money to get her hair cut, however, Evelyn told Carol to keep her charity to herself as she has her own money.
Today’s visit with Adam was a long time coming. Evelyn wanted to talk to Adam about feeling overwhelmed again. Periodically, Evelyn becomes distressed and panic builds. Paranoia has also crept into Evelyn’s life. She told Adam that she thinks someone is following her or is trying to find out where she lives. Adam had to reassure her that it was her negative thinking and anxiety causing her to become paranoid, and that she should use the coping techniques she learned all those years ago in counselling.
Evelyn sat down and peered over at the door, ensuring that it was closed. Not satisfied, she jumped up and went over to the door and locked it from the inside. Evelyn did this now and again, and Adam knew that she must be feeling very tense and anxious, as she behaved this way when she felt worried.
“Okay, Evelyn,” Adam started the conversation as she resumed her seat. “Tell me slowly what’s happening in your life right now.”
“Something is wrong. I feel death around me. I can feel it. I can sense it. My dreams are starting up again, bad dreams.” Evelyn talked this way when she was in this state of mind. She could be very abrupt and had no time for social chit-chat or filling in her sentences with warmer tones. Evelyn came across cold to many. People tended to avoid her, and she shunned them. But she liked Adam and sometimes Carol. Adam came to realise that there was something special about Evelyn, and he couldn’t help liking her too. He also had patience for the woman because she was dreadfully lonely and avoided people, however, she felt safe with Adam and Carol and they seemed to be her only contact with people. Adam had told her that she was always welcome to visit the office when she needed a chat.
“Deep breath,” Adam sounded the words out slowly, as if he was deep breathing himself. “First, what do you think is wrong?”
“I dunno! I can feel it, something is wrong,” Evelyn said, looking impatient. She kept looking back at the door and the window. “Even my dreams are all… so clear…” She stopped talking and looked even more distressed.
“Okay? Tell me why you feel something is wrong,” Adam repeated himself.
“Something big is going to happen. In my dreams, well, uh, I am dreaming the same sort of dream.” She looked down, trying to recollect her thoughts or trying to put words to her dreams. She continued, “I sense death, lots of lies, I dunno what I am feeling anymore! I hate these feelings. It’s all around me,” she said, becoming surprisingly calmer as she finished her sentence.
“Are you dreaming these things?” Adam asked.
“Yes, in dreams, and sometimes images just come to me when I am minding my own business. I can’t control them!” She paused, then said, “And remember Adam, you can’t tell anyone about this.”
Evelyn always ended her sentences with this comment, then working herself up and becoming very dramatic, before returning to a contented state of mind. She had these emotional outbursts from time to time. These mood swings seem to only happen when she was distraught about something, however Adam has not seen this behaviour in Evelyn for a very long time.
They talked for nearly one-and-a-half hours, and Adam tried many approaches to calm Evelyn and reassure her. She talked about her dreams and was convinced that they were messages especially for her. Evelyn felt that many people will die and that she could possibly be one of them. She likened it to mass murder of people, similar to an extermination of sorts. But unlike former atrocities, this wave of death brought upon the masses is something entirely new, and never seen before.
After Evelyn left Adam’s rooms, Adam couldn’t help feeling for her. She really believed what she was saying, and Adam found it hard not to believe her himself. In all the sessions and times he spent with Evelyn, she always came across truthful and honourable. If she was rambling on about made-up stories in her mind, she was very convincing–and also consistent. However, he couldn’t just ignore what she was saying either. Evelyn was an Image Carrier and a good one at that. She had told him things in the past that came to fruition, which surprised Adam, hence taking some of what she told him seriously, but what to do with the information?
Adam had tried to study Evelyn in the past, but she wanted nothing to do with that side of herself. She didn’t like being referred to as psychic or an image carrier and found that this ability caused untold problems in her life with many breakdowns in her earlier relationships and friendships. She also told Adam that it was best for her to try and ignore that aspect of herself and focus on real matters instead of living in a fantasy world.
Yet Adam couldn’t help thinking that Evelyn may be tuning into something big. Was she picking up on something about to happen? Or was all this just part of her crazy thinking and paranoia? Evelyn had been doing well over the last few years. Adam had not picked up any strange behaviour that brought about alarm bells in his head. However, he could not get the last part of what she told him out of his head. That an extermination of sorts will occur of the likes we have never seen before. What shook Adam the most was when Evelyn pointed out that this deadly assault on the populace has already begun?
Adam also wondered if this was somehow relevant to what Tom told him and Joey the day before.
Adam’s musings were interrupted when Carol popped into his office. “Just checking if you are okay?” Carol said with a smile. “Evelyn was very distressed. She got me to double check outside before she left, as per usual.” Carol laughed. Adam reminded Carol about Evelyn’s behaviour and to be more supportive. Carol agreed. Carol and Evelyn had become sort of friends over the years and Evelyn’s odd and repetitious behaviour sometimes frustrated Carol, causing her to either laugh or grimace to break her own tension. Adam also wondered what they talked about when he heard them giggling outside before Evelyn’s meeting with him. Sometimes Carol and Evelyn would get on fine and other times, Evelyn steered away from Carol for no good reason.
That night at home, Adam and Joey talked about Tom. Joey was more eager to follow up on Tom, as he believed that something was happening with the old man. Adam wondered if what Evelyn told him was linked somehow and updated his young companion. Joey couldn’t help thinking that they were all connected. He was also a little