Louven The Oven

HEAT

Chapter 5 - Part 2

Lou is burning - literally - he is on fire.  He is in the oven of a crematory in Cape Coral along with an 89 year old great grandmother. Lou is at peace here and can think.

It is time to go looking for 'his soul' - but there is a problem - one he has never had to deal with before - it appears the 'soul' has come looking for him - and while Lou has no words for this and the words I will use can't describe Lou's feelings - it can be stated this way - 'the soul' is as strong as Lou and maybe - stronger.

While Lou may not have an advantage he has an angle - 'the soul' and he both inhabit a human organism - some are weaker than others - and Lou decides that it time to shed the one he now inhabits for one younger - more robust and stronger.

He is going to have to do something else - abandon his itinerant alter ego and adopt something that 'his souls' organism would feel passionate about excited about.

Lou was going to have to first find 'his soul' - and then observe the organism 'the soul' inhabited to understand what he needed to do.

The first task was to locate 'the soul' - that shouldn't be a problem given Lou seemed to become a blood fountain whenever he was close. Lou leaned his back and laughed - the temperature in the oven rose suddenly by 1000 degrees F, setting off alarms and causing the attendant outside to have a pulmonary embolism - he was dead before he splashed to the floor.