The Hunter, The Dragon And The Smokey Mountain Angel
Chapter 12

Julia stood silently in the restaurant’s tiny entryway surrounded by reporters. Cameras flashed and the sound of more and more cars stopping in the parking lot came from the distance. She hated this. This wasn’t her worst fear but it was in the top 10. Her whole life would now be set on a table, so that the world could see every little choice she had ever made. From this day forward, they would pick apart, analyze and judge who she was…

The idea to put herself out there like this had been her own but in her belly, she knew the presence wouldn’t approve of this but she had to replace her son.

A powerful boom came from the mountain. The whole building rocked in waves of violent shaking and Julia Rose an inch above the ground. Everyone around her reached for the walls and held on to each other to stabilize themselves. A moment later the shaking stopped. This time there were no images associated with the earthquake, as had happened before but within her mind, she saw colors. She saw red and orange flashing in her vision and her heart rate increased. The presence was warning her.

“This is the Angel we told you about!” The Restaurant Manager yelled from the back of the store.

“She saved our lives!” said the girl Julia had helped up off the kitchen floor earlier.

As all the cameras stayed fixed on Julia the reporters began asking questions. When she opened her mouth, everyone went silent. She said, “I need your help. Since my injury a year ago, I’ve been in the hospital. When I came home a few days ago, I found that my son and ex–husband were missing. No one, not even the police knows what happened to them. They repossessed my home and erased all my funds from my bank account. Can someone please help me?”

“What’s your name?” asked a reporter.

“Julia Anderson,” she replied.

A reporter who just arrived started laughing to himself as he said, “Can you really fly Julia?” But the other reporters around him shook their heads.

A woman standing behind Julia, holding a microphone said, “We just saw her fly down from the mountains and land just a few feet away.”

“She can fly,” shouted the manager!

“We all saw her!” several of the servers and cooks said from the kitchen.

“I don’t want this kind of attention but I need help replaceing my son,” then Julia took a deep breath and said, “Yes, I can fly,” and then she rose higher into the air.

Gasps came from around the room as more cameras flashed. Julia slowly lowered herself back to the ground.

Then a man standing just out of camera view lowered his phone and said, “Julia, I am authorized to pay you a large sum of money for an exclusive interview. We will pay you for your story and put all the information about your missing son on the 10:00 pm news for the world to see.”

Julia nodded and asked, “How much money?”

The man scribbled on a business card and handed it to her. Julia took it and her eyes went wide. She said, “Put this in a formal agreement and you have a deal.”

“The reporter looked at the manager and asked, “Do you have a fax?”

“I have one in my office.” Then he looked at Julia and added, “I will have your contract in a few minutes but you will need to stop answering anymore questions until our interview is completed.”