The Light at the End of the Tunnel

--Worst-of-the-worst criminal Les Paul is on death row awaiting execution.--The chaplain is trying to stop the execution, and not because of a love for mankind. (The chaplain has discovered a hidden book of ancient Christianity saying, "If the state kills a worst-of-the-worst criminal-rather than allowing natural death-that criminal will reincarnate as the same person and even more evil than before.")--Mrs. Leslie Markum in nine months will give birth to the reincarnation of evil.--Ms. Nicole Waters is nursing at the hospital where the infant, Les Paul, will be abandoned. --Cassandra is yet divided between her mother and father. (When Cassandra is born her mother will live long enough to name her. On the same day her father will die in Afghanistan. Cassandra starts her life alone. In foster care she will fall through crack after crack, as nobody wants to adopt this darling little girl child. Lacking love, she soon discovers her crying brings her nothing. She stops crying. As she grows she does not come to love, anything, and does not come to trust...anyone.)--Patrolman Sikorsky is just doing his job and hoping to advance to detective.--Riley Stokes, ex-military, will train the chaplain and Nicole to become private investigators.--The only way to stop the recycling of worst-of-the-worst criminals is that they die by any other means than the state. Unfortunately there is no proof, other than the chaplain's belief, so he and Nicole will track the reborn Les Paul as he rampages through foster home after foster home.--On October 18, little Cassandra is born. Halfway across the country another baby is born on the same day, just another child who will find no love. Les Paul will find no love because he is the reincarnation of a long string of evil killers, born with the memories of each prior life, not really intact memories but memories nonetheless, and they will serve him well in his next new life.--Six months after his execution Les Paul is swimming in a warm pool of amniotic fluid. Through instinct his hands realize he wants more room. He uses his twin brother's own umbilical cord to strangle him, then pushes and kicks that useless other presence toward that light at the end of the tunnel.