A crash course in changing the world.
My mobile phone beeped.
It was powered by my body, as usual.
IT wasn't a number. IT said CXP in a circle.
Since from when I was young good and evil have fought for possession of my body and till now both sides haven't won.
Well, anyway, he said, hey do you know what Evoke's really all about?
No, I said. I don't know and I don't care.
He didn't know what to say to that.
I waited.
Silence at the other end of the line.
Then: They are a CIA plant, man.
CIA Shme eye a. I still couldnt care less.
What makes you think so? I asked citizen X.
Well, several things, he said.
Like?
Pan's profile pic.
What about it?
Black war pilot for US army? C'mon, isn't that fishy? And the upward social mobility of Bongomusa the Isuzulu, being abruptly halTED.
Well, he was weird. I mean I don't know why he has vanished for now but he may resurface.
What about Ayala?
Well, what about her?
She vanished too. Anti-Semitism.
What about Murray saying World Bank has also failed? They don't seem to mind. Jake Baird's missing too.
Hey man, who cares about a comment among millions. Or a few points leaders. Did you read the About Evoke page?
Nope.
Don' lie to me, you did, agent Koshy.
Here I'm just agent abcd.
Nope , you are damn sharp , you see but don't speak , you hear but won't tell, you speak but never reveal.
This seriously freaked me out.
I wondered if I was a secret agent of citizen X without knowing it.
No, you're not on anyone's side, he said as if reading my mind.
But we have an agent inside.
Who?
Guess?
No time.
Well, check the vids and see the one who does the handsign all wrong.We catch them young.
Huh?
Time for my next mission, agent K.
Talk to you later.
Wait. What about the "about" page.
Percentages. Check the percentages.
Of what?
Figure it out for yourself. Look at the comments. They leave clues in there. 2020 - or Washington DC - you really think you're gonna be there? Lol. You poor fool.
He was contradicting himself now, talking of the comments. First he said who cares for the comments now he says look sift through them.
Do I contradict myself. Very well then I contradict myself, he said. I am large. I contain multitudes. Geez, well read bugger, knows his Whitman. And mind reading again.
Who are you?
Citizen X laughed.
I am the fourth tempter, he said.
I was impressed.
You read Eliot?
Yeah. This wh*** place is rigged, it's all gonna blow up - won't end well for you.
Really? Why?
Watch the comments, carefully, carefully , man.
Ok. I will.
I hung up.
I needed a smoke. Fortunately, since I don't smoke I didn't have any cigarettes around.
I just returned to playing the game. Saving the world.
But thoughts kept coming back? One of my friends was a citizen X guy? Or girl? Or I was without knowing it?
What the hell did he mean?
Fake call?
Watch the comments indeed.
Mad man. Fake. S***. He'd poisoned my mind, taken away my pure enjoyment of the game.
Who were all the Evoke guys anyway?
What was their hidden agenda?
Or his?
I wished Nick was around to go have a drink with. Talk it over.
Seven weeks left to go. Plus an Evokation. Ewokation. Was I Luke Skywalker? Who was my father? Then I'd know. I was too much in it now, addicted and couldn't have objectivity.My head was too full of saving people; the food crisis, the power crisis and from ugly or sad social issues like the one I wanted to deal with - autism - to function like Holmes.
Thank God. He makes a way for us out of every temptation. I knew citizen X would be back but till then I could evoke in peace.
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