Last part of 2016 novel
Name of the book: addendum to 2016 novel Author: M.W. Bell Type of book: fantasy
This is the last segment to my 2016 novel. It might be the first U show to Kathie. Maybe I can get it printed at Key Print?
In 1980 AD (Year of the City 7940), Veiled Wolf, Fifth Son and their huge dog were drinking lagers (the dog didn't drink alchol) and eating their dinners in a sleepy dinner in a rundown neighborhood in Chicago. No one much cared that an immortal, a Big Foot and a very old and very huge dog were there. These three were simply family. The occasional outsider were told "don't bother them; they're Canadian Big Feet. To the reply "he doesn't look like a big foot came the recitals "old ones lose their hair" and "some Big Feet are actually small". Some children thought Veiled Wolf a Troll"...
A news bulletin came on the TV, interrupting what some called ShITCOMs. Veiled Wolf turned to watch...
Earlier in 1980, a polar orbiting US recon satellite was moving northward across extreme Eastern Turkey with radars got and multiple spectrum cameras observing the ground beliw. Normally, they would not be painting Turkey with the active radars but the Overhead Reconnaissance Office has been goosed by both the Heads of the VIA and the Vice President. There was a flicker of high intensity return in the ground clutter to the west but nothing unusual on the camera inagery. On the next overhead pass, what appeared to be two bright arrows appeared on the high resolution radars. Camera imagery showed breaks in foliage and w bff at appeared to be stone structures. The photo analysts were puzzled; their catalogs showed dense foliage to the west of tall spures. Historical records showed the spires as having been occupied been occupied some years prior. The third pass was over extreme western Turkey. Nothing showed on the radars and the oblique angle obscured the revealed buildings.
The next day, the cameras were obscured by clouds and the radars have no hints of highly reflective arrows. The third day brought one of the arrows on radar.and tantalizing hints of rock structures beneath vines and tree canopy. The day following stunned the analysts! The radars revealed high definition imagery of two arrows and well defined imagery of a small walled city. This was quite a surprise given explorers had long been puzzled by the spires with many rooms built in them and yet no other signs of habitation.
The next day, USAF aircraft made a mapping run over the region and used ground penetrating radars. Their analysts were stunned by the high quality and intensity is the returned signals from the arrows.
After studying the imagery, Navy SEALs inserted from Blackhawk helps the next dawn. They took photographs of incredible quality of the revealed city. The SEALs took samples of various trees and sent them to the CIA. The "Company" farmed them out to associated botony experts who said these plants were either "unknown to science" or "extinct".
These stories were reported ok n the evening news that Veiled Wolf and many others were watching. As he watched with mixed feelungs, a very familiar voice spoke only to him. "You knew this day was coming".
Various "Indiana Jones" were contacted who then rounded up teams of Explorers, and archeologists and their "slave labour" (graduate students and selected undergrads). Officials from the Turkish Antequities and from the University of Moscow (really KGB from Moscow Central). Veiled Wolf and a number of his family members joined the explorers. The "outsiders" in t bff e expectations were puzzled by the reference they were shown.
Ground penetrating radara from UCLA Burkley, mounted on little carts, was run over The arrows. The various experts were surprised by the returns. The two arrows were carefully uncovered. A later of fine river sand protected the arrows from the soil above the sand. When uncovered, both arrows showed they had been very carefully shaped and polished. The work would have stood out in modern factory productions. Surveyors took carefull sights and the group moved towards the spires.
Again, the ground penetrating radar proved their worth by showing a clearly worked and buried ditch that ended at a large spire. The tunnel was carefully dug down to reveal a metal door. The door was held shut with metal latches.
The lead archeologist nodded to Veiled Wolf and said in Latin "yours in the honour". Veiled Wolf nodded in reply and began to move latches. "We should find ancient fired clay tablets. If there are wood shelves, they will be useful for fourteen carbon dating. " (They knew he meant carbon 14 dating.)
Inside were shelves of baked clay with hard wood shelving above the baked clay shelves. On these were stack after stack of baked clay tablets. It was obvious to all the contents would need to be photographed in situ and every tablet would have to be taken down individually and photographed. It would take a long time.
Several tablets were taken down and photographed quickly and looked at. There were several different types of writing on each.
Someone commented "this is impossible!" .
Someone else made the rebuttal that libraries with translations of this ancient language into more modern tongues has been found. These ancient languages - there were several different styles of writings on each tablet examind - had apparently been carried forward.
A professor from Oregon State University noticed something.
"There is a progression here. First is a hole. Then there appears to a branch in a hole and next to it appears to be a burned branch. Finally is a blog of dried clay over what has got to be a hole. Are they telling us there are burnt branches under clays caps? "
"Let's find out! "
"We found a curious structure near here. It looks like something was deliberately buried", one explorer said. Veiled Wolf smiled and got puzzled notice.
"Why do you smile", a French archeologist asked.
"These are a people who want to preserve their history. "
The Frenchman decided that this apparent "Anerican" could not have been speaking in the present tense so he had to have misspoken. Otherwise, that would suggest some very old people's still lives among them...
This would be the last cache of plates. They would see the tech involved and used...