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The year is 313 AD, and the quiet of the ancient city is upset by the plopping footsteps of a peculiar figure that scurries through the main thoroughfare, looking back in the direction of the Pursuers that he can hear, but cannot yet see. This is Jop-ut Ka’s last foray into the city, for this time his escape route is laid with a trap, and he will spend the rest of antiquity chained to the earthen floor of a secret cell, deep in the bowels of the Lateran Basilica.
Shift to the year 1641, and the Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion disintegrates on the treacherous Abrojos Reef, carrying the largest treasure ever lost by the Spanish Crown to the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. For years to come, Spanish maritime folklore will recount the story of a school of dolphins that came to the aid of the five hundred souls that went down with the Concepcion, saving some one-hundred and ninety from their watery deaths.
Three-hundred and sixty years later, water droplets bead on a damp cinder block wall in the basement of an obscure little college in Southern California. Periodically, the silence of the room is rippled by a string of bleeps, clicks and whistles that seem to come from somewhere behind the wall. The ripples dissipate, and the silence returns. The next sound is the gentle electronic flutter of a massive supercomputer that awakens to train its ultra-sensitive microphone circuitry--waiting for the next ripple.
The Delphinus Chronicles
Will you be merely startled...or will you be changed
Book Specifications Binding Type: case-bound (hardcover) Dust Cover: full-color matte lithograph Page Count: 288 Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 trim Price: $22.50 US / 35.50 CAN
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