The Seventh Equinox by Matthew Warner

Author:Matthew Warner [Warner, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MW Publications
Published: 2022-04-22T23:00:00+00:00

Bessie stepped in front of Robin so she could look him in the eye. “Whoa. You mean, that man who crawled out of the glacier was you?”

“Not exactly. As I said, the Hunter’s and Bear’s evolution keeps pace with that of their templates—human and bear.”

“Why?”

“To answer that, I’d have to give you a long lecture on prehistoric life forms and planetary genesis. We don’t have time.”

Truman crossed his arms. “I’ve got plenty of time.”

Robin turned away from the altar and began to vanish. “Time also is an illusion.”

Fog billowed up around them again, and the cave disappeared.

The change of tone left Bessie uneasy. Plus the fog wasn’t clearing. “Truman? What do you think he’s—”

Then it suddenly dissipated. They now stood in a snow-covered clearing in a mountainous pine forest. Snow fell so thick that she had a hard time seeing, but she could still make out Truman a few feet away. His legs disappeared into the knee-deep accumulation, but of course nothing landed on him. She looked down at herself and saw she was the same way. They were like ghosts.

She jumped when she saw Robin standing behind her.

“Here’s what you need to know about time,” he said. “Every seven hundred years the Earth’s energies split and become incarnate. The Bear will live for another seven centuries if not hunted down first. If the Hunter doesn’t kill her within that time, then the Bear will die anyway—but the world will die as well.”

“Wh-what? What do you mean?” Bessie found it impossible to concentrate in this blizzard. It didn’t matter that the blowing snow didn’t actually touch her. Her instincts said she was in danger from the elements and she had better find shelter now.

Truman waded through the snowdrifts with no more trouble than he would through fog—because indeed that’s all it was. He came to stand beside Bessie. “It’s just more mumbo-jumbo, darlin’. He wants us to think the world will end without him.”

“Not right away,” Robin said. “There just won’t be any more Hunters and Bears. But the environmental imbalances you see now will only accelerate.”

Bessie tried unsuccessfully to swat falling snowflakes out of her face. She felt like swatting Truman. “Go on, Robin. Like what?”

“Global warming, beehive Colony Collapse Disorder and the destruction of the food chain, rising rates of cancer and premature births—it’s all just the beginning. Soon, magma disturbances will weaken the magnetic and gravitational fields. The invisible Van Allen Belts will disappear along with our protection from solar particles. The planet will wobble like a faulty gyroscope, disrupting the seasons. Shall I go on?”

Bessie needed to see something tangible and reassuring. She looked at her hands for lack of anything better. “Oh my god.”

“This is a big crock, if you ask me,” Truman said.

Bessie glared at him. “What’s wrong with you? I haven’t seen as much as you have, and yet I believe him.”

“Maybe that’s the difference between you and me.”

“Why would someone as powerful as Robin bother to explain this if it wasn’t the truth?”

“Beats me.

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