Then Hell Followed (Journeyman Book 5) by Golden Czermak

Author:Golden Czermak [Czermak, Golden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Golden Czermak
Published: 2017-01-01T18:30:00+00:00

A DIGITAL CLOCK on one of the sleek lab workstations indicated that it was just past ten o’clock. Many of the lab workers had already taken off for the night, except for those dedicated – or insane – few that must have discovered some kind of portal to a place where days were seventy-two hours long and there was no need for sleep.

Henry and Ty were no exception, still in the lab already prepared to burn the midnight oil with a candle that was burning from both ends. In short, it was going to be a very long night, but they were so close to rescuing Joey from his plight that it drove them on. As did the aromatic smell of lemon and peppermint, which Henry had sprayed into the room to invigorate their minds, promote clear thinking, and stimulate concentration.

He could have used a few extra whiffs of lavender to calm his nerves, too.

“Careful now,” Henry said sharply as Ty was placing the Grail into a scanning module. “I finally got everything calibrated to those horrendously rigid specifications you gave me.”

“Henry I know what I'm doing,” Ty snipped, clinking the metal chalice against the glass walls of the unit by accident. “Why are you so nervous anyways?”

“Nervous?” Henry asked. “I'm far from nervous Tyler. I suppose I am jumpy, but it's more due to excitement. This particular thing happens to be the unknown for me and learning new things always gets the gears grinding.”

“That could be taken in so many bad ways, Henry,” Ty replied, not really wanting to visualize Henry grinding anything. “Can you make sure I'm centered?”

Henry moved over to a nearby console and started keying in something on the soft-touch keyboard.

Inside the scanning box, tiny blue lasers beamed down from the top and there was a high pitched whine. Two of them changed hues, shifting to a deep purple. Ty used them as guides, adjusting the Grail slightly until all four were blue once more.

“Thank you Henry,” he said, closing the door to the unit. “Begin scans.”

Henry keyed in a few more things and the beams vanished, replaced by a grid that slowly revolved around the Grail. As they moved, a digital representation appeared on the screens.

“Excellent,” Henry stated, looking at the full render on his own monitor. “Shall I try to activate the runes?”

Ty nodded and there were a couple of flashes within the scanner, the light quite bright. Shielding his eyes Ty looked over to a nearby screen as hidden runes and wards appeared, scattered over the entire surface of the cup.

“Bingo,” Ty said jubilantly. “We have our next set of breadcrumbs.”

Diligently the duo began to compare the symbols against what they knew from lore and from textbooks – the stacks of which were starting to overrun the lab much to the disapproval of Hudson, the librarian.

A lot of them ended up leading to dead ends, similar in so many ways to things they were seeing but just different enough to be wholly new.

As

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