Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet EarthPetrovic, Walter D.
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Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet Earth
Petrovic, Walter D.
Science fiction
"My son conveyed to me a story told to him about your father, and in
fact it was told to him by your father. He said, that your father was
found by a stream swaddled and left in a skull of a lion."
"Yes, that is so, my Lord Bartlett!" Boyce fervently confirmed.
"From the line of Wind Jones, daughter of Richalé, son of Hosea Jones;
we have her forth generation great grandson, Guiness with his wife
Joanna, pursued by Elkinii plains slave-traders. Having given birth to
a son, they continued to run through the Virgin Mountains trying to
escape the slaver. Knowing that they would be caught, they wrapped the
child in the sackcloth of Joanna's apron and hid him by a river in a
lion's skull, where Smith soon found it while his own wife was in heavy
labour baring a child. Beside their own son Manguino, the adopted
Brook (giving him such a name as he was found), was raised by them as
their own." Harvard finished the account, according to his knowledge
of it and eyed Boyce for a moment, admiring how the young man was
absorbing everything that was being said to him.
"Is that why my father was not evil?" asked Boyce.
"Many of us believe so." confirmed Harvard then continued. "The evil
seed befell your uncle, the ArchBishop Manguino through his
grandfather Father's incest with Lucaea. As you had studied alone in
Alugean so did Carter study, and then he left the great library to
learn from the world. He reached the land of BanGor, to the east,
that was and in ruled by a cult of high-priestesses that are directly
descended from Anna, the first wife of Hosea Jones (yet not from
Hosea's own loins). Carter had fallen into relations with the great
granddaughter of Anna and their product was Smith, your father's
father. Anna's evil seed was passed through Smith to Manguino. As
Anna and Hosea's first son Cano turned evil, into being the Canon
Di'Vaticanus, so did Manguino become the ArchBishop!"
The fascinating story made Boyce wonder if the old times with Hosea
Jones were any different than the times now, since he knew more about
the Twentieth Century history than he knew about his own. But now
from what Harvard had told him, he better knew who he was and declared
that he was ready to prepare for his return to Pomperaque.
Within the next several years, from 3055 C.E. to the end of 3058 C.E.,
the entire northern continent joined under an idea of unity and love.
Under the leadership and guidance of Harvard Bartlett, Lloyd and Boyce
became figure-heads of the community. They increased the prosperity in
the land two-fold over a period of three short years and they built up
a fighting army as powerful as any that had ever fought on the earth.
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