Reagan (Hengist-People of the Horse Book 3) by Gray Jacky

Author:Gray, Jacky [Gray, Jacky]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

24 Spirit Lines

Malduc insisted they study the area in more detail before setting off on a quest which could be long and frustrating. ‘I cannot stress too highly the importance of this, Reagan. Before we even think about starting work on a new horse, we need to be sure it’s in the right place. As you can tell from the records, many of the horses have been moved or re-shaped.’

‘If we travel along the spirit line, it should be obvious.’

‘The line Kalen indicated is ten miles long. You will not be able to dowse it all in one day.’

‘No, but the most likely place is Clack Mount and we were merely going to follow it for five miles as far as Cam’s Hill.’

Malduc was wary, wanting to consider all the options. ‘I’m not convinced it’s a pentagon. If you turn this ‘C’ shape upside down, and find two more positions, you could have a hexagon.’

Reagan hadn’t realised this. ‘Oh.’

‘You must consider this possibility and draw up suggestions for the two new positions, please.’

Kalen had been quiet until then and he took Reagan’s arm, almost pulling him up out of the chair as he said, ‘You’re right, it could be a wasted day. We’ll have a look at this first.’

Reagan allowed himself to be ushered out of the room. As soon as the door closed, he wrenched his arm from Kalen’s steely grip and stomped off to the office, preparing to fight his corner as Kalen breezed in with, ‘We need to check this hexagon idea.’

‘But the shapes were definitely pentagons ...’

‘Could you give me the thirteen times table, please? Backwards from 169.’

Reagan folded his arms and clamped his mouth shut mutinously, but Kalen wrote two words on a slate and flashed them in front of him. Blank mind. Blank mind?Of course, Malduc might be listening in. ‘169, 156, 143, 130, 117, 104 …’ He continued on as Kalen got a new sheet of tracing paper and clipped it over the map, marking on the four places they knew about and marking the main Aveburgh and Stonehenge monuments. He then rotated the sheet by 180°, lining up the Westburgh cross over Uffington and vice versa.

Reagan held the tracing steady while Kalen marked crosses under the rotated Woodhenge and Ham Hill positions. He joined the six crosses to make a fairly regular hexagon.

‘What about if it’s a mirror image, not a rotated one?’

‘Good point. Mark those positions on a fresh sheet, please.’

As they worked, Kalen picked up on Reagan’s desperate need to question what had happened and tried to distract him.

‘What do you know about crop patterns?’

Reagan looked up from his task of marking in the Michael and Mary lines from the large scale map. ‘How do you mean? They appear in the fields, and each one contains a message relevant to someone or something, usually nearby.’

‘Interesting. Where did you learn this?’

‘I’m not sure. I could be wrong, but they always seem to appear in fields near the white horses or other monuments.

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