Chapter 31Southern CountiesLeah arranged for Bal’Ashtu to enter a private clinic
in Bournemouth. For the first week the prophet was allowed to rest and
recuperate. During the second week, a course of operations began and she was
swathed in bandages whenever I visited her. By the third week, she was able
to eat normally and converse with her nurses. Leah was a constant
visitor.
During this time, I made my peace with the University. I
told them as much as was necessary about my trip, just enough to whet their
interest. It was when I revealed the details of the earlier artefact and the
tests we’d run on it that they were hooked. Then caution prevailed. What
if it was all an elaborate hoax? But when I showed them the photographs and
camcorder images of the murals in the cave with th
