The Mayan Prophecy by Scarrow Alex

Author:Scarrow, Alex [Scarrow, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Adventure, Historical, Mystery
ISBN: 9780141968674
Amazon: 0141968672
Goodreads: 23021079
Publisher: Not Avail
Published: 2013-07-18T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 36

1994, the cave, Nicaragua

Eighteen hours after first entering the cave they’d managed to set up the halogen lamps, running from the mini-generator. Which in turn was running on several jerry cans’ worth of diesel that Bob and Becks had been sent to retrieve from the rebels’ camp. The harsh blue light coming from the 500-watt lamps filled the cave with a brutally clinical glare that scared the shadows back into the deepest recesses. Nothing, no forensic detail, no faded scrawl was going to escape their unremitting light.

And through the night they’d searched the cave, every nook and cranny, every fissure leading off into smaller caves and wriggle-spaces so narrow they left behind skid marks of elbow and knee skin on the sharp edges of rock. They came across several clusters of human bones, which seemed to confirm Adam’s assertion that at some point this place had been used as a burial chamber. But, as it happened, there was no more mysterious writing to be found in the cave.

There was just that one small faint patch of glyphs.

Now they were sitting near the mouth of the cave, the generator silent, the lamps off. It was midday and the sky was heavy with tumbling grey clouds that rumbled irritably. They listened to the white-noise hiss of rain spattering against the rock-face outside, the echoing drip of moisture trickling down through the fissured roof above and plopping noisily into shallow pools on the cave’s floor.

A small fire crackled between them, its meagre warmth doing little to lighten the mood.

Maddy turned to look at Billy, standing at the mouth of the cave smoking his pipe and chatting quietly to Bob about something. She’d banned him from smoking that awful thing inside, the stink of his curious brand of tobacco made her want to retch.

‘So it seems this turned out to be a total waste of time.’ Maddy sighed and absently pulled strips of bark off a dried branch. ‘I’m sorry we dragged you away from your college digs, Adam.’

‘I’m not.’ He scratched at his chin. ‘Got me away from those morons I share the place with.’

‘But this has all been for nothing.’ She snapped the brittle stick. ‘I guess I was hoping there’d be something more here; that there’d be something in this cave that would explain everything. Well, at least give us a clue.’

‘Aye, well … it was a long shot, Mads. What’s that saying? A shot to nothing?’

The fire was beginning to wane.

‘Who says we need to know everything, anyway?’ said Sal.

Maddy looked up at her with raised eyebrows that were saying, Seriously?

‘Well, look at it this way, Mads,’ said Liam. ‘We escaped Mr Waldstein and his army. If we’re careful, the chances of him ever finding us again are close as damn to nothing. We have a comfortable enough home in London, we have our time machine and our source of energy … but most of all –’

‘We have our health?’ added Sal.

Liam looked at her. ‘I was just about to say that.

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