Herbert Fabian McGerbert, award-winning author of The McGerbert & Associates website and the informative pamphlet "Isn't It Time for a Change?: How the Christ-Inspired Technologies of McGerbert & Associates Can Fulfill Your PR Needs", has announced the completion of the first official, authorized biography of jet pack pioneer Dr. Jacob Robert Shrum, titled "Dr. Jacob Robert Shrum: Figurative Gorge, Literal Sky - How Dr. Jacob Robert Shrum Found the Lord, Redeemed His Life, and Saved the Soul of America." Leading up to its release, ProjectJetPack.com will be publishing exclusive excerpts from this seminal work.
Chapter 3: A Destiny Presaged
The sun bore down on the crackling-dry Iowa plains. JRS may have already become the youngest-ever Uber-Flight Eagle Scout (the secret, highest rank of Boy Scout that only the most-trusted of Scout Masters are told about), but at age 14, he remained full of restless energy: a boundless, unquenchable curiosity about the true meaning of life. He traveled the plains with a scientist's fastidiousness but a mystic's insight, in a single day both discovering a new species of Great Plains butterfly (which he classified as flius buterflius), and intuiting that new species' intelligent design ("ID") from a rare form of plains clay (which he was also the first to discover). It was on one of these nature walks that JRS met a mysterious fellow who was known by the pseudonym Reginald McClatchkey, a seven-foot tall, fire-haired, oft-misunderstood wanderer. JRS's sharp mind was able to quickly deduce that McClatchkey was more than he appeared because McClatchkey in fact told JRS as much, as it was clear that JRS could be trusted above all others. McClatchkey was in fact the last surviving member of a banished Viking-Israelite tribe called the Esante that had settled the lands of Iowa long before the Indians. JRS intuited that McClatchkey was not the prurient malefactor others took him for - he was Norsekund Liefericson, the famed, if little known, Esante medicine man. Norsekund took the young JRS under his wing, but soon the young Iowan became an equal, and then the teacher. Norsekund even made JRS an Esante brother with the sacred Scoediemae blood ritual of the Esante people, an exceedingly rare honor for those not born with Israelite-Viking blood.
By the time Norsekund Liefericson had been tracked successfully by Canadian law enforcement (with the help of U.S. Marshalls), JRS was in full possession of all Esante secrets, developed over the centuries by that ancient people. But what is a flight-inclined youth to do with that knowledge? Could it be harnessed to Save the Soul of America?
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