Techromancy Scrolls: Avalon by Erik Schubach

Author:Erik Schubach [Schubach, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780463834886
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Published: 2018-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7 - Avalon

As we loaded into the Outrider the next morning, the Avalonians seemed a lot less tense, and Esme was practically glowing. I was about to ask as we crossed the heavily frosted ground into the airship, but then I got it. According to Bex, we were four hours from Avalon. They were going home.

I knew that feeling, I got it every time I returned to Wexbury from an expedition or campaign. Our hearts long for home, even if you are enjoying yourself in a new realm.

I paused in the door and looked back, seeing my breath on the frosty air. We would be how far north now? Was it like moving south, where Far Reach was always warm?

Our scholars believe that the farther south, the hotter the climate, and that the equator would be around a hundred and forty degrees, which translates to a band around the middle of the Earth around a thousand miles wide which would be unlivable. The southern hemisphere would be much like our northern.

Two hours into the flight, the steady whup whup whup sound of the large propellers that pulled us steadily forward, slowed. I moved over to Bex. “A problem? Why are we slowing?”

He gave me 'the look.' Mother Luna, the man was about to science me into a coma. “We have to slow the propellers to prevent catastrophic failure as ice builds up on the blades. It's a fascinating phenomenon actually, as we move forward and the leading edges of the propeller profile slice through the...”

I pressed my hands over my ears and started saying, “La, la, la, I can't hear you.”

He shoved my shoulder. “Snot.”

I stuck my tongue out at him in response, and gave a silly curtsey, spinning away to rejoin my wife.

Actually, that was quite fascinating to me, but if I let him keep going, he would start using words and terms I had no clue about. It's as if he had his own secret language at times. There were times I envied his mind. That he could understand all the maths and science, which defined our world, as easily as breathing.

He called out to everyone, “You may wish to start looking north.”

Those of us from Sparo joined the Avalonians who were already looking out the front window. On the horizon, I saw the peak of a snow-covered mountain. My heart started beating faster. Where there was water, there was life.

I asked nobody in particular as we lumbered through the sky toward the growing mass of white, “Your mountain range?”

Esme chuckled a little and assured me, “There are no mountains where we are going.” I glanced over, and she pointed. “That is no mountain, that is the polar ice cap that Avalon is built around.”

Polar ice... that was ice? A glacier as big as a mountain? My eyes widened, knowing that if we could see it from this distance, it had to be positively enormous.

She went on, and again I could tell she had been an instructor like our Jacklyn, “In the days before the Cataclysm.

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