Elixir by Davis Bunn

Author:Davis Bunn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2012-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

BY THE TIME TAYLOR ARRIVED AT THE ISLAND’S PORT, THE day had warmed enough that he found his sweater uncomfortable. Clouds had been banished with the wind. He paid his fare, stepped onto the boat, and joined the others by the railing. The change was so great Taylor found it hard to even recall the gray Scotland that had greeted him on his arrival.

And there were waves. Great rollers untouched by wind lifted the boat and propelled it in swooping dives down to the next swell.

Taylor carried the monastery with him. The previous night’s internal bruising was as raw a presence as the building sense of pressure. He was being propelled forward. Toward what, he could not say. But there was a sense of motion at every level of his being.

Taylor watched the jewellike sea’s rise and fall and accepted for the first time that there was no avoiding his own lack. Not anymore. He felt surrounded by everything his own life did not contain.

If he was ever to understand what all this meant, he needed help beyond himself. He needed a wisdom he did not possess, and never would so long as he insisted upon seeking alone.

Taylor arrived at the mainland harbor and headed up a lane transformed by daylight. The little village sparkled. Gone was the former seedy barrenness. Even the cobblestones possessed a highland sheen.

He climbed the lane to the surf shop, taking clear aim at the goal ahead. His honesty burned too brightly this day to do otherwise. He hungered for an understanding that would last. He wanted that which would not be torn from him the next time he was assaulted by a want, a need, a worry, a pain, an anger, a foe. He wanted to maintain this hunger, to reach forward and grasp and seek and learn. He could not do this on his own. He had to receive whatever it was that gave these people the ability to fathom what he could neither see nor even name.

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