11-04-2015, 02:23 PM
As Irina spoke, Sierra fell fully from Elias' attention. Even as she responded, Elias' focus was intent upon the older woman. Her story hummed with a resonance of an old wives' tale, but the rapture with which she told it set off warnings in his mind. There might be grains of truth in the tale, and Elias mentally repeated Prince Vsevolod's name to himself to to look him up later.
"I have never seen a ghost, and of all the absurd legends in this world, they are least likely to exist."
Elias dismissed the notion of the prince's afterlife. He long ago ceased to believe in the spirit of mankind, judging what he could sense instead, but if spirits existed, they would quickly be swallowed up by damnation upon death. "But I would very much like to find this 'great evil' of St. George."
A battle between Russians and the mongols on the banks of the Volga river...he thought back to his study of the continental waterways in first semester biology. The Volga was the longest river in Europe and drained into the Caspian Sea. It was the watershed for the Moscow River and conceivably, the creature he and Sierra encountered might have originated in that ancient sea.
"Thanks Mrs. Marveet. Are there other legends like this one that you grew up hearing about?"
If this creature guarded something two nations wanted to find, maybe there were other hidden treasures as well.
"I have never seen a ghost, and of all the absurd legends in this world, they are least likely to exist."
Elias dismissed the notion of the prince's afterlife. He long ago ceased to believe in the spirit of mankind, judging what he could sense instead, but if spirits existed, they would quickly be swallowed up by damnation upon death. "But I would very much like to find this 'great evil' of St. George."
A battle between Russians and the mongols on the banks of the Volga river...he thought back to his study of the continental waterways in first semester biology. The Volga was the longest river in Europe and drained into the Caspian Sea. It was the watershed for the Moscow River and conceivably, the creature he and Sierra encountered might have originated in that ancient sea.
"Thanks Mrs. Marveet. Are there other legends like this one that you grew up hearing about?"
If this creature guarded something two nations wanted to find, maybe there were other hidden treasures as well.