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disturb the man when he was working. ‘Where are you planning on redirecting our friend to.’
    Phillip clamped off the line, and realised that in his hurry to deal with the problem he’d screwed up. ‘Good point. Rhea, get the other end of that cable and plug it into one of the cells on the battery. And hurry!’
    Rhea picked up the cable and ran with it. ‘Which cell?’
    ‘It doesn’t matter,’ he yelled back, ‘but once you see the charge enter the battery, and the amps rise, hit the knife switch and it should be trapped. Run!’ He glanced up to see the unknown entity hit the cable that was connected to the pole he was working on. He grabbed the plug of the ten-mil cable that he’d secured to his belt and went to plunge it into the MCI connector, but in his haste he lost his grip and the weighty cable dropped back to the ground.
    Max and Chuck were both running with Rhea toward the shed.
    ‘Somebody!’ Phillip yelled. If he dropped down to the ground to retrieve the cable he’d never climb back up in time.
    Chuck did an about-face and raced over to help Phillip.
    ‘Come on, Father, move your arse!’ Phillip sat holding the MCI connector that was about to be hit by their strange electrical surge and he didn’t really want to find out what would happen if it reached him and had nowhere to go.
    Chuck, puffing and panting from his sprint, picked up the cable and began swinging it in a circular pattern, like a cowboy might swing a lasso.
    ‘We’ve got one shot at this Chuck. Make God proud!’ Phillip held out his left hand to catch the cable, whilst holding the MCI connector firmly in his right hand.
    The priest let the cable fly up, right into Phillip’s awaiting grasp. ‘Yeehah!’ the priest exclaimed in relief.
    The entity was nearly on top of Phillip. Although he was tempted to, he knew he should not rush. He pushed the connectors together until he heard a click and then pulled them slightly apart to be sure the connection was secure. As the charge reached the connector, he let go and slid down the pole.
    ‘Great work.’ Chuck slapped his shoulder.
    Phillip felt this was no time for congratulations, as the charge had picked up speed and was now racing down the cable toward Rhea who was only just rounding the shed. ‘Holy Christ! It’s moving faster than it should be. Run, baby, run!’
    As Rhea came to a stop in front of the battery, she spied the charge come round the corner of the shed and race up the cable toward her. Her fright nearly made her drop the cable, but they’d come too far to blow their chance of trapping this entity now. She let out a screech as she pushed the plug into a cell socket, and no sooner had she let go than the charge passed into the battery and the gauge on the cell suddenly rose to fifty amps.
    Phillip came racing into the shed with Chuck hot on his heels. ‘Hit the knife switch, babe. Quickly, before it realises it has nowhere to go.’
    Rhea threw the switch and everyone took a second to catch their breath.
    ‘Did we get it?’ Chuck queried. He could not relax until he knew.
    Phillip checked the gauge and the amp reading indicated that they had indeed captured the beast. ‘It’s trapped in a lead casing.’ He unplugged the cable, just to be sure, and then kissed his horrified wife and held her close.
    ‘I’m so proud of you.’ Rhea squeezed her husband and collapsed into tears.
    ‘It’s all right, hon,’ he comforted her, ‘it’s over.’
    ‘So what happens to the entity now?’ Chuck wondered.
    ‘We remove all the connector plugs and wait for the battery to go flat.’ Phillip was fairly sure that that would be the end of that.
    ‘You are a brilliant man.’ Max smiled and held his hand out to shake Phillip’s and then Rhea’s hand. ‘And you are a very brave young woman.’
    ‘We couldn’t have done it without you.’ Rhea smiled broadly at the occult scholar.
    ‘And you, Father.’ Rhea looked across to the priest, who was quietly thanking