Lucan by Susan Kearney

Author:Susan Kearney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Paranormal, General, Romance, Fantasy, Adventure, Women Priests, Fiction, Explorers
ISBN: 9780446543316
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2008-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

There is a farther unknown world, a world beyond Avalon.

—ANONYMOUS

14

For two days Lucan followed the stream that led him to civilization. He’d tapped into his credit and rented a skimmer. With the military searching for him, he’d be foolhardy to travel straight back to Avalon. Instead, he headed for the remote site where he’d left his spacecraft.

Finally reaching the beach, he walked out to the sea and plunged into the surf. He swam out three hundred strokes, grabbed a deep breath of air, and dived straight down. His spaceship blended with the sea bottom, but since he’d triangulated the position with landmarks, it wasn’t hard to spot the craft beside a fan-shaped white coral formation.

He palmed a lock that responded only to his handprint, and the sealed hatch opened. After swimming into the air lock, he pulled a handle and resealed the outer portal.

Water siphoned out, air cycled in, and heat blasted him dry, and Lucan headed straight to the communication center, a circular bridge with giant windows. He keyed in a request for his messages from home.

Since he hadn’t been back to the ship in almost a month, he had video messages from both parents waiting for him. As always, they sent their love, but as he compared the new videos to the pictures of his family on the console, he noticed that worry had added wrinkles to the corners of his parents’ eyes.

His sister demanded that he return home immediately, that he was on a fool’s mission. Maybe he was. He had yet to enter Avalon, and apparently there were still more inscriptions to decipher to obtain the Grail.

Vivianne Blackstone, CEO of the Vesta Corporation and the woman who’d built this spaceship, had also sent a message. No babies had been born during the last few years. No babies anywhere on Earth.

Lucan used the computer’s extensive data bank to bring up Layamon’s Brut poem. Just as he’d remembered, many of the lines were similar to those he’d found on the cave wall. The computer couldn’t translate the second carving, but it did recognize the language was from the Tribes—Arthur’s ancient enemy. And when he logged in the type of rock, the elevation, and the depth of the rune carvings, the computer estimated both of the inscriptions had been made about fifteen hundred years ago—possibly during King Arthur’s lifetime.

The legend that Arthur had left the Grail in Avalon before his death seemed even more likely. Now Lucan had to find a way to get back to Avalon and find it.

He had to decide whether he could trust Quentin’s offer to intercede with the prosecutor on his behalf in exchange for Lucan’s expertise in reading the runes, but first he needed to head for the medical bay. With any luck one of the computer-run diagnostic tools could strain out the dragonshaping blood and restore him to his normal self.

Swinging onto the table, Lucan pulled the diagnostic device over his body. “Full medical scan.”

“Processing,” the computer answered.

The procedure would take several hours.

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