JimAde said:
"Just a couple of things, Professor. First we wanted to thank you for your work on the text. It's been very helpful. Second, and this may seem like a strange question, but we were wondering if you consulted anybody else on the matter." As he speaks Dexter moves further into the room and in front of the professor's desk. As he continues, he is surveying the vases.
"You see, we received a note that seemed to be connected with it and I'd like to get in touch with the person who sent the note." He bends down to examine a vase more closely, though he does not make as if to touch it and adds
"Are these Etruscan?"
Professor Wilson listens to Dexter, “Well yes I consulted a few of my colleagues on the matter but that is how things get done, one can’t create history in a vacuum, is there anyone in particular you have in mind?”
“And no it is not Etruscan, it is remarkable how similar the style is yes, I picked these up Peru, the first I bought from a vendor then had him show me where he got them from, it was a week’s journey and a near brush with death, but I find the collection of vases to be quite fruitful. The excavation site had been recently uncovered by seismic activity, the actual site dates back nearly 25,000 years. Well let me correct my self,” she lifts the vase she was working on, “this one I found in the Congo, but its design is quite similar if not identical to the others, again the dating places it, around the same time frame.”
She smiles, “It is a momentous find, and I hope to find more artifacts of this society, although from the engravings and the translations I have made thus far, it was a far more brutal and savage culture then the Aztecs and quite advanced in the arts and sciences. These may very well be artifacts from a lost civilization, akin to Atlantis. From the translations the people called themselves the Children of Angels, and they revered a caste of rulers called scions, which they attribute great powers to. It is all very fantastic, but I am still puzzled at the source of the written text it does not follow any ancient script; it is alien in ways. The language as written can change meaning by the positioning of text in a given sentence, often jumps to various lines, and is jarring to read, you don’t read in a straight line, and it is very mathematical in structure relying on formulas to divulge the meaning and so far much of the text seems to be religious in nature a dark religion revering dark savage gods, it is in a word, grotesque.”
Selene blinks, “So what does all that mean?”
“It means that I have a lot of work ahead of me,” she replies coolly.
