"How can I write something in the future and send it to my present?" muttered Atticus but Morpheous was lost in his own thoughts and didn't bother to listen. He could sense that something was gravely going wrong and there was only one man that he knew who would be able to answer this puzzle - Daminaos.
So he turned towards Atticus and said,
"Let us fins Damianos first. This is way beyond my ability to comprehend."
But the hands and legs of the old man were shaking now. Processing this much information, this much weirdness in such a short span of time was becoming difficult for him. His brain had frozen and he found it difficult to have coherent thoughts and drive.
With a troubled expression on his face, he looked at Morpheous and said,
"My heart rate is way too high right now. I won't be able to drive. Just let me wait and let me catch my breath for a few ..."
"Then let me run this!"
"What?" exclaimed both Eva and Atticus in harmony.
"Are you nuts? How can you drive? In your era don't you use horses?" but before he could ask anything more, he saw Morpheous coming out from the passenger side.
"Please let me run this thing. We need to reach there as early as possible." His voice was less of a request and more of an order and hearing which Atticus silently retreated and walked out to the passenger side. Then turning back towards Eva he said,
"It's better you strap yourself with that belt" and pointed his finger towards the seat belt clamp. Then he turned towards Morpheous and said,
"First you need to use the hand-brake."
"I know!" he said and released the handbrake. With his one hand on the steering wheel, Morpheous turned on the ignition and started the car without a jolt. In the next second, he had already switched to the second gear.
"How how! How do you know how to drive?" asked a baffled Atticus and then turning towards Eva he repeated the same question. to which Eva calmly reciprocated,
"He observes, understands, and then he learns."
"Just like that?" he exclaimed.
"Yes, just like that," said Eva and went back to being in the quiet mode again and Morpheous switched to the fourth gear. He was having no trouble in following the navigation system as well since he had already seen Atticus using it on the way to Woodstone.
Still unable to believe that he was able to drive by just watching, Atticus kept holding on to the top side handle. His heart instead of settling down was running even faster for Morpheous had switched to the fifth gear.
The city area od Riverdale was about to start so he said,
"Now you can leave the steering to me. The traffic signals might be too difficu..."
And Morpheous pressed the brakes.
"What what? What happened?"
Morpheous pointed his finger towards the traffic signal which was in red with a waiting time of twenty-seven seconds. A surprised Atticus looked at the man sitting next to him. A weird calmness was spread across his face and from his eyes gleamed strange confidence. But what he was witnessing was just a fraction of the capacities this man encompassed.
And just when the signal turned green he pressed the pedal and then wheeled through the roads of Riverdale.
They kept rotating back and forth along the lanes near Nathasha's house, but there was no luck. The EMP device kept swinging in the direction of Morpheous and Eva.
The wind has started to become chilly and the afternoon started turning misty. Seeing the shade of orange that had spread in the sky, Morpheous knew that soon the sun was about to set, and that made him impatient. His growing anxiety was evident from the arch of his eyebrows.
They were running out of time and luck.
Seeing him writhing in the seat uncomfortably and craning his neck every now and then, Atticus asked,
"Shall I call the cops and check with them? I think we have already covered more than the required perimeter."
"Yes, please!" replied Morpheous and then halted his vehicle next to a tree in the lane that they had been traversing.
"Hello!"
"Hello!"
"Damn there is no coverage!" exclaimed an exasperated Atticus and then got down from the jeep and started walking around.
"What are you doing?" asked Morpheous as he saw Atticus making weird hand movements and rotations after getting down.
"My bad!" Exclaimed Atticus and said, "This device helps me to talk with another person who is far away from me using the signal strength properties. But right now I am not receiving much strength of the signal. So I am unable to communicate."
"And whatever you are doing... Does it help?"
Hearing his question Atticus couldn't decipher if that was a general query or a sarcasm. So he curtly replied,
"Sometimes!"
"Then let me do it!" said Morpheous and took the mobile phone from his hands and started walking backward.
"Careful brother!" screamed Eva as there was an incoming person from behind.
.
'Thud'
.
"Ouch!" she screamed and held onto her ankle.
Morpheous turned immediately as he realized having collided with someone and from the tone of her voice it seemed to be a woman, the most beautiful woman that he had ever seen in his life. For a moment he was dazed for she was a surreal sight to look at.
"Can't you look when you are walking?" she yelled and then winced in pain but he stood there unperturbed without showing any reaction on his face.
"Hello? Can you at least help me get up?"
Seeing that Morpheous wasn't moving an inch, Atticus came into her rescue and gave her his hand and helped her stand up.
"What kind of weirdos are there in here?" she said and gave out a scornful look at the man.
Plastering a fake smile on his face, Atticus said,
"Don't mind him. He is a bit disturbed due to the matters in life. He will recover soon. I apologize on his behalf."
"Whatever!" she said and started walking with a slight limp.
"That was so uncalled for brother. You should have helped her. Forget helping, you did not even apologize. Look at how she is limping because of you," snapped Eva.
Without replying to anything Morpheous picked up the earphones that the lady had dropped and walked towards her.
"Pardon me!"
"Pardon me, lady!"
And she turned.
"I guess this is yours!" and he stretched out his hand to give her earphones back.
"Erm... thanks I guess!" she said curtly and took the earphones from his hand. But the moment her hand touched his, she suddenly felt a surge of energy. It radiated from the tip of her fingers and made her elbow twitch.
"What the hell!" she yelled.