The Script of Evil

09. Omnipresent

Billy just wants to push the doorbell of the house in Park Drive when Michael opens and he stands in front of them. He must have been watching out for them.

"Hello. The swami is meditating."

Michael comes outside and shuts the door. "Just follow me in the meantime to my little place. I stay in a little wooden cabin in these people's backyard."

He walks to the side of the house and they follow him. They go in between a fence covered with creepers and the wall of the house to a backyard where a small cabin is situated next to a washing line.

They follow him into the cabin and he shows them two miniature wooden stools low down on the ground. They sit down on the stools and close to each other.

The place has only one room with a bed opposite them and a desk with a chair underneath. Michael pulls out the chair and sits down and smiles at them. He looks quite normal today.

"Welcome in my place; how are you today?"

Kadin smiles back: "It is a nice, cosy place."

Michael shakes his bald head quickly: "I'm so lucky to have this place due to the goodness of the owners who are in the service of Krishna. Before this, I was a wanderer in this mad world where people ruin everything; including themselves."

For Billy this sounds strange: "What do you mean, Michael?"

"Distorted values; everything is distorted. We are all marionettes and the masters play us with their invisible strings. They manipulate our knowledge and our faith and keep us blind. Those that rebel against it, become targets and are labelled and we are forced into boxes where we are classified and controlled. In the meantime, we think the world is okay and we go to work each morning and come from work late in the evening in the service of this distorted world with its skewed values. We think slavery is abandoned but we don't know that we are slaves of the chosen ones."

They look at Michael dumbfounded and wonder what on earth he is talking about. Something's wrong with him, for sure. Kadin decides it is better not to ask further questions and to attend to the purpose of their visit.

"Could you decipher the script, Michael?"

Suddenly something clicks in his head and he answers: "Whe...re d..id you ...you f...find...that boo..klet pre .. ci..sely? You ...you a..re hi.. hiding some ...thing." His eyes flicker strangely and he shakes his head while he wrings his hands anxiously.

They look at each other and Kadin indicates with her head that he must tell Michael the whole story.

Michael smiles happily after Billy told him everything. He speaks normally: "I knew that you were hiding something. You say the girl yelled and this is very important for me to decipher the script easily. In which language did she scream? Could you hear it? I hope so; it is extremely important."

He looks at Billy so intensely as if his life depends on the answer. Billy thinks for a moment and then answers convincingly: "Afrikaans ... I'm sure it was in Afrikaans ..."

"Yes. I've got it. I will decipher the script quite easily now, thank you. There's only one problem!"

Billy asks inquisitively: "Is that undecipherable part in other words written in Afrikaans with Sanskrit symbols? If so, how are you going to unravel it?"

"Just leave it for me It's quite easy, but there is a problem."

Kadin is now curious: "What's the problem?""

"The swami wants you to return the booklet immediately to the park where you found it. He wants me to forget about all this and continue with my service to Krishna. He firmly believes that this script is a curse on all of us and when the booklet is put where you found it, the curse will be lifted. I am not completely convinced. That's why I waited for you to talk to you before you see the swami. What are we going to do? The swami took your script and doesn't want me to see it."