The Time Hunters and the Lost City (The Final Chapter in the Time Hunters Saga Book 5) by Carl Ashmore

Author:Carl Ashmore [Ashmore, Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: NEW
Published: 2015-05-25T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

The German Dutchman

As Uncle Percy and Kenneth examined Bertha for signs of damage, Bruce went to the gunsmith’s, returning soon after with a pearl-handled Colt revolver strapped to his hip. He gave Uncle Percy the coordinates to a destination point in Arizona and they all boarded the campervan and left.

The next thing Becky knew they had arrived in a small shadowy cave, her eyes set forward on a fissure three feet wide, beyond which a honeyed sun dominated a flawless sky.

‘So how far are we from Phoenix?’ Joe asked.

‘Just a short walk,’ Bruce replied, as everyone climbed out of the van. ‘We’re at the base of Camelback Mountain in the Phoenix Mountain Range. I first came across it a few years ago and always use it as a Safe-port when I’m in town.’

‘What’s a Safe-port?’ Becky asked.

‘It’s a traveller’s term,’ Uncle Percy replied, ‘for a location they can guarantee no witnesses to their arrival. Travellers often identify new ones on their time trips and report them back to GITT, for other travellers to benefit from. We’re very fortunate one of yours is here, Bruce.’

‘Y’ain’t wrong, Perce.’

Uncle Percy looked at Kenneth. ‘Could you return to Bowen Hall, please, and contact Charlie Millport to ask about the situation with Catherine of Aragon?’

‘Are you sure you don’t want me to accompany you, sir? At this point in history Phoenix can be a boisterous town and you may require my particular skill set.’

‘We’ll be fine, Kenneth,’ Uncle Percy replied. ‘Besides, your presence may trigger some awkward questions and we don’t want that, do we?’

‘Then good luck everyone,’ Kenneth replied. ‘I shall see you shortly.’

Uncle Percy led the group out of the cave.

Emerging onto a steep slope of layered sandstone, Becky felt a wall of heat surround her like a blanket. Squinting, she scanned the area to see the greenery of Kansas had been replaced by the sun-scorched scene of a desert, peppered with Saguaro Cacti and wide patches of thornscrub. Turkey vultures flew overhead, their broad wings barely moving as they soared toward a distant mountain range which bordered a valley, at the centre of which was a town.

‘Phoenix,’ Bruce sighed happily. ‘Risin’ grandly from the parched earth like the imaginary bird she’s named after.’

At his words, a terrible memory entered Becky’s head. She was standing in the Great Temple of Ptah in Ancient Egypt, staring with revulsion at an actual Phoenix imprisoned by the ex-Nazi doctor, Aribert Heim. ‘The Phoenix is not an imaginary bird, Bruce,’ she said in a low voice. ‘It was very real … we freed one from the hands of a psychopath.’

‘I’m sorry, Missy,’ Bruce replied. ‘I didn’t know. Sometimes I forget some of the crazy ass things you’ve seen over the last year … stuff no young ‘un should ever see.’

‘It’s been what it’s been.’

‘I know.’ Bruce curled his arm around her shoulder. ‘And the way yeh’ve handled it just shows there ain’t none finer than you and your baby bro. And I’ll be telling your pappy that when we see him very soon.

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