Susan Squires - [Da Vinci Time Travel] by The Mists of Time

Author:The Mists of Time
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Gawain opened the door for her on his black Range Rover and handed her in like it was some kind of carriage, just like always, and loped around to the driver’s side.

“Okay, so we filled out a police report on my silly computer,” she said, unaccountably peeved. It felt so bad not to be able to do anything about the terrible things that were happening. “Now what?”

Gawain made no move to start the SUV. “I’ve been thinking,” he said slowly. “We have to get Mordred today if we’re going to get him. Tomorrow it’s all out of our hands.”

“Well, that would be nice,” she said with a certain amount of sarcasm. “But I don’t think that’s going to happen.” Wait. What had he said? “Why is today different than tomorrow?”

He looked at her with gray-green swirling eyes. “Because Mordred will have called his army to him. He’s from the fifth century. He doesn’t go with the concept of ‘virtual army.’ They’ll be congregating wherever he is, the closer ones first, and then the ones from farther away. They’ll bring weapons. Don’t know what kind. But after today, he’ll have protection. I won’t be able to take him out hand to hand.”

A series of really horrible scenes flashed before her mind’s eye. “So you’re thinking this is going to be a pitched-battle kind of war, not a stealthy-acts-of-terrorism kind of war?”

“It’s what he knows. He may look to kill the president or the governor to make a point. He might try to take over some kind of military arsenal and threaten a city. I don’t know. I know he wants power and he can bend men to his will to get it.” Gawain’s eyes were gray and hard.

“Maybe he’ll just start rallying in public with his fanatic followers and making speeches so he can get elected and secede from the union or something. I mean, he has a right to do that.”

“After what he’s done so far? I think these murders are an initiation rite of sorts, a proof you’re worth a position in his army. Either way, he’s generating hatred that will fester and linger in society until it rots from within or is torn apart. If we stop it now, before they can get organized, by taking out the center, it will die out. He’s got to be stopped.”

It began to drizzle. A really depressing drizzle.

“I . . . I agree with that.” Even if he had to be killed. She swallowed. She wondered if she would ever have imagined herself saying something like that when her father was alive. But if Mordred was truly behind inciting people to all these murders . . .

“Then maybe you’ll agree to find him for me.”

“Me? I have no idea where he is.” What made him think she would be of any use?

“Use your power.”

She had to laugh. “Like I have power. That’s the world you come from, guy, not my world. We don’t have ‘powers.’ ”

“I think you do.” He was so sincere.

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