LEGACY JOURNAL OF WINSTON RAYNE
Mon. March 31, 1969 - Cuzco, Peru - Hotel del Sol - 9 PM
Derek & I arrived via a local airline late this afternoon. A very tiring day - left SF late last night on flight to Mexico City with a stop in LA. Then, we had a 3 hr. layover & change of planes in Mex. DF for the flight to Lima. Didn�t even bother to check in with the Lima House - such a rush to catch the bi-weekly flight here. Immediately hired a car (a good, old Land Rover) & purchased equipment & supplies for the trip to Urubamba, which will be our base of operations for our rambles to the various Incan sites.
I�m particularly anxious to visit a site recently discovered between the Q�ente Ruin & the railway tunnel. Official reports assert that the site has for the most part yielded artifacts of the Late Formative Period of the Classic Nasca style - unusual for that far inland. However, rumor has it that there have been items uncovered that present a paradox in that they seem to include designs that bear some resemblance to writing, which was, of course, unknown to pre-Columbian South America. Rumor also has it that the �designs� resemble Kabbalistic �angelic� script.
We�ll take in the sights here in Cuzco tomorrow, while we rest up & purchase a few additional items available only on the black market. With the evenings still moderately long, & the road said to be decent, we should be in fine shape if we leave by early afternoon.
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Though exhausted, Derek seemed to have had good time this evening. For some reason he found it amusing to eat at a �Chifas,� a local Chinese restaurant. The dinner of noodles & chopped chicken was hot & therefore safe & more than passable. It also struck him as funny that Chinese noodles should have a Spanish name - �taillarines.� I sometimes forget how young he is & when I suddenly realize, it surprises me. It�s then that I discover how little we really know about each other. While eating I quizzed him on his languages - his French & German are more than adequate, his Spanish somewhat less. His Latin, for some reason, is abominable - he cannot seem to get his mind around the way the language works. Last session�s grades were abysmal. It�s such a logical language. It�s odd, but he seems to do much better with Hebrew, despite the entirely different alphabet & construction. Unfathomable!
Derek�s a basically bright boy with boundless curiosity, but he lacks focus - a very dangerous flaw in the world of the Legacy, which I hope will be his world. His mind flits in all directions at once. He needs to concentrate on one thing at a time until he masters it: a jack-of-all-trades will always be a master-of-none. This lack of focus is made doubly dangerous by the gift of his �Sight,� which is the strongest I�ve ever seen - far beyond my own small talent. He must learn self-control & discipline or he�ll never be able to deal with it. C warned me on the night of his birth that he would need special handling, since he�ll have a special mission in life. I wish I felt that he was stronger - he cares so much that I fear it could be his weakness. There�s so much passion there just below the surface. He needs to divorce himself from these emotional distractions.
Perhaps, I was wrong in allowing Barbara to select a Swiss school, when a place like Gordonstoun in Scotland, where this young batch of royals are being sent, would have been better. I understand that they promote stoicism & discipline - a sound mind in a sound body, accustomed to no luxuries. But, then again, maybe a military school would have been best. That might have tamed his flightiness & instilled some backbone. I fear it�s too late now. All I can do to make amends is be a harsh taskmaster. The Legacy�s not an easy life. I must either weed him out now (for his own safety), or, I hope, watch him rise to the occasion. Considering the warning, I should have paid attention years ago, but the battle against evil called. There is nothing of greater importance than that - if we lose that battle, then all is lost.
After this jaunt, I�ll take him back to Lima & put him on the flight to Amsterdam via Madrid. Then, I�ll return to further study the burial site & pursue some vague leads on the sepulcher.
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