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Chapter 6 - Part 2

Lou woke up in an ambulance streaking towards Ft. Myers - it had just crossed the Matlacha bridge heading out of town. There were two attendants working om him trying to staunch the blood coming out of 'her' ears. 

Words fail here because Lou simply reacted - we would say in human terms that he lost it. The ambulance, the 2 attendants and 'she' simply vaporized in what can only be described as a small nuclear explosion. 

Everything was vaporized in a very small contained area - all that remained were atoms - basically the air that we breath.  Nothing surrounding the ambulance was harmed; 'she', the 2 attendants and the ambulance existed now as the wind.

Lou, while simply random molecules, gathered 'itself' in a manner of speaking and simply became part of a palm tree - he needed time to think.

If he was ever to get close to 'its' soul he was going to have to inhabit something more robust than a homo sapien - he was never going to get within 500 feet. He wandered back through the millennia thinking about the various roles he had played in this game of life he had created for his own enjoyment. 

Lou of course was the Phoenix but he had to stop burning and rebirth long enough to snatch the soul - and then just like that he had it - he knew what he had to do.

Cats were revered in Egypt - yes - he remembered that  - I mean of course he did - he was the reason they were revered. As Mafdet he had presided over the raking of many Egyptian souls - many indeed. He loved raking the souls of cats - Bubastis was full of the mummified remains of those soul rakings.

Lou was the reason cats were personified with the destructive power of the sun's heat. If Lou inhabited a cat, he would have a fighting chance of getting close enough to 'it's soul, but would it have to be a cat .....

Lou laughed figuratively .. after all he was a palm tree ... the palm tree burst into flames and the home owner, watching it, fell down on his knees and began to pray ....