Back In The Hunt: A Nelson & MacIlwraith Mystery (Moon Murder Mysteries) by K. Sterling

Author:K. Sterling [Sterling, K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bawdy Books
Published: 2024-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

Ten

The following afternoon, Bryn left Everly in Arawn and Merlin’s care, claiming he needed to blow off steam and set off for a short run to the university. It wasn’t difficult to find the Anthropology Department and Nox’s classroom but Bryn was stopped in the hall by a young assistant professor who introduced himself as simply “Tony.”

“You’re a friend of Professor Mac’s?” Tony said as he barred the classroom door, his arms crossed over his chest as he eyed Bryn dubiously. “I know most of the professor’s friends and he’s never mentioned you.”

“I’m a newer acquaintance. I’m crashing at the professor’s place while he and Merlin help me with a…unique situation,” Bryn explained.

Tony made a knowing sound. “If Merlin’s involved, it’s definitely a unique situation but that doesn’t mean that Nox is cool with you interrupting his lecture,” he returned, striking Bryn’s temper. But he respected the fact that Tony had been trusted with several responsibilities as a fledgling professor and appeared to take them seriously.

“Swear I won’t.”

“Cool. I’m still going to need you to wait out here until I check with him. You don’t have a badge and he didn’t clear you first,” Tony said before gesturing for Bryn to wait in the hallway. It took close to ten minutes before Tony reappeared and led Bryn to a seat at the back of the room. “It’s a full house and the professor wants the freshmen in the front when he covers metamorphosis in mythology,” he whispered as they climbed.

A picture of a yellowed, ornately illuminated Latin manuscript was projected on the screen behind Nox. He was studying it, his back turned to his audience. All eyes were on him as Bryn lowered into a seat and waited to see if Nox lived up to the rockstar lecturer hype.

“Here, we have a depiction of the deification of Julius Caesar. In the year 8, Ovid wrote this: Metamorphosis.” Nox turned and pointed at the screen over his shoulder. “As we discussed earlier, we have the hare and the lion. Ever abundant vitality, sexuality, and fertility in one, and courage, strength, leadership, and royalty in the other. Two immediately recognizable codes based on nature and universal consistencies across numerous lores.” He clicked a remote hidden in his hand, enlarging the image.

“Looking closer, we see a cow’s skull and a god with ram’s horns in the border. We often see a cow or a cow’s skull in creation myths. But the Romans didn’t have any major gods with horns in their pantheon. There was Faunus or Inuus who was later conflated with the Greek god, Pan, another minor pastoral deity. Faunus was an old king who was raised to deity after his death. This is significant because the cult of Pan was concentrated to Arcadia and had no known connection to Caesar. In fact, Ovid makes no mention of either and while there are very few depictions of Faunus or Inuus, he is never depicted with horns.”

A hand raised and a young woman stood after Nox gave her the floor.

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