From Beyond Reality (Novelette) by Bertolaccini Victor

Author:Bertolaccini, Victor [Bertolaccini, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: CosmicBlueCB
Published: 2014-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

Part II

The Crater

Chapter 17

The Crater

At the front of him, the cliff went along until it went out of sight, and a dim rectangle shape came into his sight, as he walked along.

His fingertips were blindly caressing the rough stone, through thick webs and dirt, and he shoved his hands away, in the dim light there, and crumbling bits of gray rot fell about to the ground.

His mind gradually grasping its hideous outline, and he moved away, as he jerked his hand further away – conclusively knowing what he was fumbling through. It was an open-mouth skeleton with a rusted knife embedded its chest.

It was incredible to him that such a thing could have been there, and left there for such a length of time, without it being taken away. The place must be the most desolate place on the planet!

“It’s clearly of another era!” Carlton stated, moving in behind him, with Brydon behind him.

“But was it a savage that roamed this place?” Parker asked.

“Perhaps even a cannibal – and original habitant!”

“Yet why has it got an early 20th century knife stuck in it?” Brydon asked.

“So it has!” Carlton replied, realizing that he had missed it.

“It also looks the same age as that guy’s scroll map of this place,” Parker continued.

While the others descended down the cliff, they examined it and their newly found surroundings.

Once Gorman had made it down, he came over to them, and they showed it to them.

Parker argued with himself over how much they should go along with them. Should he take the philosophy and procedure of the more that they helped them the better it would be for them, and quicker that they found what they were looking for the more better it would be.

Gorman looked at the skeleton with disgust, and then as if they had put it there – which amused Carlton – perhaps wondering if he thought that they had carried it there, hidden in their stuff.

He snorted loudly out his nose and was going to march away, back to where he had been.

“I thought you were searching for something and wanted us to help you?” Parker asked.

“We do!”

“Well surely this must be a clue or something. There could hardly been anyone else down here … It proves there is something of value here anyway. People don’t get killed over nothing!”

“You have a point. And we are surely on the right trail.”

A sudden hostile shriek of something strange appeared for a moment in the distance, but it was too vague for any proper identification.

They stared at each other for a moment, and Parker noticed that Gorman and his men looked worried about it.

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