In All Things, Balance by Lucy Varna

Author:Lucy Varna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Amazons, women warriors, archaeology, women's adventure, immortal, archives, archaic languages
Publisher: Bone Diggers Press
Published: 2015-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Begni’s letter drew Tom’s attention again and again over the next few days. There was something there, something he couldn’t pinpoint. The Bones of the Just. The phrase leapt out at him every time he read the letter. He studied every document he could find related to bones and the Sisters, and still, it nagged at him like water hitting his brain one meager drop at a time. He e-mailed Naomi and sent her a transcription, pleading for any assistance she could give, and asked the director’s permission to bring Ruanna in, anything to help him break through the wall he was banging against.

Moira continued to dig through the forgotten rooms in the Archives, rooms Naomi hadn’t discovered or had time for in her own explorations. She’d moved to another room since finding the bones now in the eager company of young George. He’d come out the same day Tom had called him and picked up the remains, promising to keep Tom and Moira both in the loop on any findings.

Maybe it was too much to ask, but Tom sincerely hoped George could identify those remains and possibly fill a hole in the People’s history.

Thanksgiving morning dawned clear and cold. Moira chased Tom out of the bedroom an hour before they were supposed to leave for his family’s get together. The evening before, while he’d cooked the pumpkin pies his mother had asked him to bring, she’d slipped out of the apartment, leaving the ever-faithful Ruanna behind to watch him. Two hours later, Moira had come back carrying a hanging garment bag and another one of her duffel bags. She’d hidden them in the closet and refused to discuss their contents or the reason she’d left, but now he had to wander what she was up to.

He filled his time sitting on the couch, going over his notes on Begni’s letter. Ruanna had translated the section containing the reference to the Seven Sisters as, “Five shall there be, together (unintelligible phrase; name?), and there the Bones of the Just shall forever lie in sacred slumber.”

The Bones of the Just. A metaphor? A literal reference? Bones, bones. He turned the phrase over in his mind, contemplating the possibilities. Interpreted literally, the phrase likely referred to the remains of the Seven Sisters, but if it wasn’t a literal reference, it could refer to anything, like the laws and customs of the People or even the People themselves.

He rubbed his fingers over his forehead and stared at his laptop’s screen. Literally interpreting the phrase was an idea he kept returning to. The Prophecy of Light was, well, a prophecy, full of portents both mysteriously vague and absolutely clear, but this was a letter, a communication from one party to another, written by a woman who could very well have known one of the Sisters personally. If bones literally referred to the Sisters’ remains, then there existed a slim possibility that somehow, somewhere, their locations had been recorded and the remains could be found.

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