Janus the Arrival (The Janus Trilogy Book 1) Read Free Page B

position, so in the end, she decided
she’d be much better off talking to Janus in private.
      
    The following
Wednesday morning, as the class stepped out into the playground, Gill called the
young lad aside and sat him down at her table before asking,
       
‘Janus, do you remember anything from around about the time when you were
born?’
        The youngster simply lifted his head and
looked all innocently into her eyes. She’d always been amazed at how blue his
eyes had been, but this was the first time that she’d been so close, and been
able to study them in any great depth.

 
    A weird
sensation came over the woman all of a sudden. The deeper she looked, the more
they seemed to be able to hold her in their heavy, hypnotic yet wondrous gaze.
Something very much out of the ordinary was somehow occurring, and Gill began
to feel quite scared, as she realised there was something extremely unnatural
and threatening about them. Strange flame-like flecks appeared to be floating
around in the background. These seemed to reach out towards her, almost as if
they were searching for her soul. But as hard as she tried, the teacher found
it totally impossible to turn away, as Janus looked on and probed around inside
her mind.
       
Gill sat absolutely paralysed. She’d never experienced anything like it before,
and she fought very hard to keep her wits about her. In an extreme moment of
panic, she let out a loud scream that echoed around the whole classroom. She felt
as though she was losing complete control of her senses, and became very giddy
as the room started to swim around her. Pressure then began to build up inside
her. It pushed against her lungs causing her to find it very difficult to
breathe normally, with the lack of oxygen starting to cause her mind to play,
what she would have classed as silly little games. She imagined herself being
gradually crushed to death in the menacing grip of a giant Boa-constrictor. Its
body slowly coiled around her, cloying at her body in the process. The whole
thing was completely gross, but this soon turned to reality, as in her attempt
to head for the door, a sharp pain suddenly shot across her chest. This emitted
a strange popping noise just before she fell quite heavily to the floor. The
cries of a young child caught the attention of another teacher working fairly
close by. He immediately knew that something was wrong, stopped what he was
doing, and ran as fast as he could in the direction the noise had come from.
        Eric Jacobs was unequivocally shocked to
discover Gill’s body lying sprawled across the floor. At first he just stood
staring from the doorway and couldn’t quite take in what he was seeing. He
noticed one of the five year olds from her class crouched in the far corner
with tears streaming down the sides of his face. Eric spotted the caretaker
just about to turn into the corridor and immediately shouted for him to call
for an ambulance. He also realised that it would probably be a little late for
Gill, as there didn’t seem to be any sign of her breathing at all. Eric walked
across to her body and quickly checked for a pulse. There was nothing, much as
he’d expected. He then adjusted her skirt in order to cover her modesty as best
he could, before approaching Janus.  
        That was the episode that his parents
blamed for setting off the bad dreams their son happened to suffer from that
day on.
     
    Over the coming
years, the death of Gill Moxon became a distant memory, although the school
still maintained a bench within its grounds in her honour. Janus had grown much
stronger over that period of time and he’d settled in pretty well during the
transition from primary to secondary school.  
        Due to his agility and his keenness on
sport, he’d automatically been drafted into the school football team, which was
a no-brainer for the coach. Sadly, it was when he excelled beyond the normal
expectations of a child of his age that his parents