Pakal Ahau
” Look.” Jane shook Ahmed’s arm. The bubbles beneath the water continued. Gustav’s face burst through the surface.
” Hi, Lieblings.” He leapt up onto the stone and proceeded to shake like a wet dog. ” That underground cave is getting longer and longer.”
“Where is Candy? “ Jane said. Gustav surveyed the pool. ” Here she comes.” He pointed to the center of the water. Candy’s brown braid twisted through the ripples like a water moccasin snake.
Candy slithered to the edge of the pool flopping her arm on the stone base below the cascading waterfall.
“Wow, that was monumental. Those stalagmites were enormous.” She wretched herself up to a seating position, her legs dangled in the water.
” Historically the caves were used by the Maya to worship underground gods.” Gustav said, ” Did you see the pictographs on the wall?” Gustav was an archaeologist in one of his former lives.
” There was a series of hands and feathered…”
” Enough chit-chat, time is ticking there are less than thirty minutes left.” Ahmed said. Gustav punched in his part of the code, then Candy. The rock started to move. Entering the cave they were hit with blue shining light from a wall of computers – a pseudo rising sun.
” Hello Ahmed.” The computer avatar said. ” red line data search required.”
” Thanks Pete.”
” You are welcome Ahmed. Don’t forget to recharge the power system as we are at maximum drainage.”
” Ok, Pete, shut down.” The face on the screen dissolved and Ahmed removed the battery cartridges snapping them into his solar power pack. ” It should take ten minutes for the recharge , in the meantime Pete has put out this red line data – and it doesn’t look good.”
Jane touched the screen where Pete had appeared. ” I still can’t get used to those virtual assistants, they seem so real.”
“Real enough to have their own protection agency, the WVAP.” Sam said pulling out a card from his back pack and handing it to Jane.
” We have more dire circumstances to focus on. Look at this data. Perimeter P, Z and X have been compromised.”
To be continued…
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