The Serpent's Curse by Tony Abbott

Author:Tony Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

Moscow

Strangely, to herself at least, Becca didn’t freak out after the insanity of the car chase. Even racing to Moscow in a smoking, sputtering, nearly windowless rental car with a bullet-riddled engine didn’t faze her. And while everyone else was either breathless (Lily) or crazy anxious (Wade) or jabbering his head off (Darrell) or staring zombielike down the road ahead (Uncle Roald), Becca was calm.

More than calm, she was serene.

Something had clicked, and her mind was blocking everything out and holding a single image. The mirrored outlines of Italy.

She was certain they were the key to decrypting the Maxim passage in Copernicus’s diary, the one marked with the date “xiii February 1517.”

If they were also the key to the tiny scroll from the Onion Tower, she would translate both texts here and now. She would do it in that freezing, smoking, cramped Aleko, and she would conjure the astronomer’s words and Maxim’s five-hundred-year-old message.

Badgering Wade and Darrell to shield the diary from the wind, Lily focused the tablet in flashlight mode overhead so Becca could work out the double-eyed code.

Like a television chef preparing a delicious dish, she ran her finger along the diary page and narrated everything.

“First, we have the coded passage. Here is the beginning line.”

Ourn ao froa lfa atsiu vlali am sa tlrlau dsa . . .

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