Adeptus Major by Alex Mykals

Author:Alex Mykals [Mykals, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781933720180
Publisher: P.D. Publishing
Published: 2007-03-30T05:00:00+00:00

“And this, Your Highness, is the Maze Chamber of the Grand Temple.” With a flourish that made him look slightly ridiculous, Dr Malloy ushered his guests through the huge porticoes and into the vast, echoing chamber beyond.

Ally and Evelynne did not notice how he looked, however. They were too busy gaping at the massive empty space of the room they had just been escorted to. “E’met,” Evelynne murmured. “Amazing. They hadn’t restored it nearly this much the last time I was here.”

The circular Chamber looked nearly new, as though it had been abandoned for mere days, rather than untold millennia. It was at least a hundred metres across, and the floor was covered entirely in blue-veined marble, the slabs set so closely that the seams were nearly invisible. At the east and west walls, huge statues of a man and woman, respectively, supported the roof on their shoulders, nearly fifty metres overhead. Both statues were completely nude, the woman with long flowing hair, and the man wearing a thick beard. The detail of each sculpture was intricate, and Ally felt her face growing red involuntarily as she look at them. It didn’t help that both giant faces were pointed so that they seemed to be watching down over the occupants of the Chamber with knowing, wise, and slightly amused expressions. The only decoration on either statue was the eight-pointed star that graced each of their foreheads.

“She looks kind of like you,” Evelynne whispered to Ally, pointing up at the woman above them. “That is, if you had long hair.”

“Yeah, and wore a thirty-four D bra,” Ally muttered back.

The roof that the man and woman were supporting was a perfect half-spherical dome, plain and unadorned. In the exact centre, a twenty-metre wide hole let sunlight in to lighten the Chamber. The shaft of sunlight poured through the opening to illuminate a circle in the exact centre of the room.

As Ally and her companions started to make their way across the gleaming floor, she couldn’t help but feel as though her booted feet, though carefully cleaned before entering the building, were somehow sullying the perfection of the floor. As she walked, she noticed that the marble was not actually seamless, but was actually inlaid with veins of oricalcum and some other metal that looked like white gold. The metal looked like it had been poured into intricately carved grooves in the stone to form complex and slightly disconcerting designs. Intrigued, she asked the archaeologist about them.

“Ah, yes. Those make up what we call the Maze,” Malloy replied. “The metals are oricalcum and a gold-silver alloy called electrum. They cover the entire floor of this chamber. We have managed to reconstruct a picture of the pattern in its entirety, and it seems to actually be a quite intricate fractal pattern. That in itself is causing quite a stir in the scientific community, I can tell you. Supposedly fractals were first discovered a few decades ago, but here we have a pattern going back to prehistory.

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