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
"She was found, wrapped in richly garb and placed in a golden cradle.
As the girl grew she became beautiful, like the sun. She shone with
inner light. Her hair was white -- shiny like snow and iridescent like
the moon. Her olive-skin flesh colouring contrasted her naturally
reddened mouth and she possessed dark, almost black, almond-shaped
eyes. Her beauty was near Holy and many men felt a jealousy within
themselves when they just looked upon her. Then, at eleven, she was in
size and stature, and appearance, to that of a full-grown woman; she
birthed a son. This son, the Canon had proclaimed as a "Saviour" and
sought to conduct a sacrifice in honour of the child, but he told the
world that nothing was precious enough for this. It was soon
determined, however, that there was one thing of great value, in all
the land; the boy's own young and beautiful mother. In the shortness
of time, and as if for the redemption for her death, the boy became
weak and also died. The child's milk of life was taken from him and
nothing else would sustain him.
The child's death was hidden from the ignorant masses and all the
people believed in a falsity for nearly a half millennia." Lloyd
recounted the story about the foundling that came to be called Sunshine
by the old Abbess Mariot, in the common year of 2640. This was the
same little girl that resulted the subsequent formation of the
spiritualism that has been followed for the last four hundred years.
As the twilight evening gave way to the dark of night, Brook told
Lloyd about his own lineage, following it as far back as he was able
to, and confessed to him the peculiar ancestry that he had with the
Canon Blue. He explained that his father's line originated with the
woman Dioneza, the half-sister of the Canon. In 2660 C.E., she had
agreed to be artificially inseminated with Twentieth Century seamen
from a physicist, who was called David Sannstein. He confessed to
Lloyd that this wasn't really his own line and that he didn't know
from where his line actually stemmed. Brook admitted, truthfully,
that he was a foundling.
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