The Scroll

Eight-Hundred years ago.
An English Knight kneels against his sword, dying from the two Saracen arrows protruding from his back. When his fellow knights arrive he points to an empty water skin laying on the desert floor. When he sees that the water skin is in safe hands the knight pitches forward in a cloud of sand; and disappears.

The present day.
A Church of England vicar steals a family heirloom. With it he plans to become the pre-eminent religious leader on Earth and save the World from it's sins. To achieve this he prepared to double-cross the secret society that he belongs to and abandon his live-in lover. He is also willing to kill.

Deep in the New Forest a man awakes in an unmarked grave. It is not the first time but he feels that this time something is different. He has an ominous sense of loss and of imminent danger. For the first time in centuries he has made a mistake.

The words of the scroll contain the power of the man that wrote them; two-thousand years ago