Overview:
The Numinous Constraint Agency is an extra-dimensional, multi-dimensional bureau tasked with maintaining a balance in the multi-verse in the spirit of a grand bargain called ‘The Trinity’. It is headed by a dream-creature called ‘Arteus the Faun’ and it is staffed by variously talented Agent recruits. These are through the annals of The Agency Tales revealed to the author with dream-sendings.
The staff of the Numinous Constraint Agency are drawn from the ranks of forgotten gods, demi-gods, mythical creatures of various types, also mortal Human beings who uniquely possess a ‘tongue of flame’, whom are thus called ‘torches’. Stone and Flute tells of the mission of the giant Argus Panoptes and the mortal ex-CIA agent Vernon Duke to retrieve a precious object from a Bank in Durban in 1856AD. They also battle an impundulu to rescue a candidate torch; stop an AmaPondo invasion and stir up trouble with the Olympian Gods.
What if…? Cause and Effect… the texture of your life would take you on a journey that you never expected? What if the way you patterned your life does not follow the script that you had prepared for? How does the natural survive an encounter with the supernatural? At what point does the ‘ordinary’ life of a candidate torch become ‘extra-ordinary’?
Bernard Byrne -the Borough Clerk of the newly established colonial settlement of Durban is destined to discover that the encounter with the Numinous Constraint Agents Argus and Duke – who are going about their business – will change his understanding of the meaning of Reality. The young Victorian-Era shootist is about to fall into dire existential peril where everything ordinary about his life will disappear forever. Who is ever ready for an encounter with the ‘extra-ordinary’ and what it all means?
Where to find The Agency Tales – Stone and Flute by Caldon Mull: https://books2read.com/u/mBKlPR