The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey Page #2

striding forward with each full moon.

We've got a month, maybe two,

with a scrap of God's grace.

We could do it.

Reach the church and raise

a spike of Cumbrian copper.

- Aye!

- With you or Searle to lead our party.

Aye, 'tis our best chance.

Show the faith.

Here's to taking it!

To our journey!

Then Searle must do it.

Connor must do it!

I am sick of all the death.

Looters on the lake!

Con! Come on!

I never thought I'd see the day

when you'd stay put.

You're amongst friends now, Connor.

Looters!

From across the cliffs!

The Stonecutters' village!

On the lake! Pillagers!

It's the far village!

- Are they armed?

- Aye, look!

- Not pillagers.

- No, there's women and children onboard.

Refugees from the East.

They're scared, scared of the Death.

Somebody fetch spears.

We'd best keep guard ourselves.

I heard a story once,

about them old pits up behind the mine.

They reckon there's a hole up there

so deep...

...if you'd dropped a stone down it,

sooner or later it'd fall out

the far side of the Earth.

The copper... an offering.

We've got to take the offering, Con!

To the great church,

to the far side of the Earth.

Look.

There is no time

for your journey, Martin. It's plague.

And if they have the Death,

then it's too late.

It'll have hopped 20 mile on

from Gosford by morning.

Its full moon bears contagion for it

like a sack.

At sunrise, she lets it fall... on us.

Help!

Griffin! Griffin! What is it?

- Are you alright?

- Griffin! What's wrong?

- Wake up, Griffin!

- Griffin, wake up!

Griffin! What's wrong, Griffin?

The seam, the pit...

In my dream, we were tunneling

through to the farthest part of the Earth.

Your head in the clouds again, Griffin?

Leave him. There's signs within dreams.

He's been right before.

The blight on last year's corn.

The vein of copper at the pit.

Have you forgotten?

Do we make the journey,

then, Linnet?

Right. I'm with you, then.

It's our only chance.

- Con!

- And Griffin comes too.

So I carry the cross, eh?

Why's it always me

has to carry the weight?

Connor, Connor...

Where's Ulf? Ulf?

There's a church

at the far reaches of the Earth, Mother.

It's the greatest in the world.

The pilgrims take gifts there.

And that's the place for the little Virgin.

And God willing, I'll put it there myself

for you, Mother.

Ulf?

- Ulf!

- I'm coming, Searle!

Don't go! Don't go without me!

Wait! Wait!

Hey, keep the fires burning!

We'll be back soon!

Ulf, come on, hurry up.

Always too far in front

and too far behind.

What is it?

It's what I told you before.

We're tunneling through the Earth.

All of us.

We're using an engine.

The engine's got a shaft

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