Children of the Sea
A Work in Progress by Anne Ruby
Part Three: Jared's Story
“Imagination, vision, if rightly interpreted and utilized, is one of the most powerful aids to historical and archaeological understanding; and the ability to cast an eagle glance down the avenues of the ages is, it seems to me, but one of the first steps in psychic progress.” — Lewis Spence, One of the Fathers of Atlantology, The Problem of Atlantis, 1924
It’s Jared’s one-hundredth birthday and after one heck of a celebration, he opens his last gift, post-marked all the way from Brighton England by a traditional English gentleman by the name of Egerton Sykes; a man Jared met only once in his lifetime when he was eight years old. Before even removing the object from the styrofoam-popcorn-filled box, Jared knows what the gift is right away and wonders how the priceless treasure could possibly be in his century-old hands again after all these years.
Jared recalls the day he met the elusive Mr. Sykes, the man who dared to read aloud from the pages of the Professor’s private manuscript; those thrilling but forbidden passages from Uncle Rick’s off-limits work-in-progress, The Unified Field of Everything.
Way back then, had Mr. Sykes been trying to prepare Jared for something? Jared’s Destiny perhaps?
As Jared looks back on his childhood and reflects on his brother’s ability to see ghosts; his grandfather’s uncanny dowsing skills; and Dr. Janus’ wise words at the mass stranding of dolphins in Sugarloaf Key, Jared begins to understand the events that shaped his life; leading him to become a cracker-jack pitcher for the Toronto Jays, a world traveler, and an active member of the Explorers Society with a deep-seated passion to find definitive proof of the lost continent of Atlantis.
What happens when Jared and Dr. Valentine bring the contents of the treasure chest from the shipwreck of the Angus to light? And what long-forgotten tales are written in the Angus Captain’s Logbook?
These burning questions and more will be answered before it's time to explore more in Part Four, Language of the Sea.
