Born in 1982 in Barcelona, Xavier Marcé graduated in Journalism in the city of Seville, where he lives after having lived in Badalona, Casablanca, Zurich, Oslo and Hanoi.
49º South, 101.30º East
Anuchin crater, dark side of the Moon
48 hours later
The Valhalla was resting on the flat surface of a lunar crater. Captain Brunilda was sitting in the command chair while the crew prepared for lift-off.
“The spaceship’s systems are ready. Orders?” Navigator Fruor turned to her expectantly.
“Time to blast off. Once we are at jumping distance, activate the Bifrost,” she stood up to look at the entire bridge crew.
“And our destination?”
“Home. We are returning home…” The ship began to rise and Brunilda could only think about all the time they had been gone.
“Initiating Bifrost system. Jump point set and… Wait a minute!” Fruor looked at her, disoriented.
“What is it?” For a moment Brunilda feared that these were new contacts of the Hekkars.
“This is impossible. The spaceship will not let us make a direct jump.”
“What do you mean, it will not let us? Eskandal, was the Bifrost system damaged during the battle?” She couldn't believe that she had overlooked something like that.
Eskandal rapidly began to run through all the systems, checking them one by one.
“It cannot be…” she said out loud, incredulous.
“What?” Brunilda couldn't stand it when she didn't finish her sentences.
“The spaceship is blocking the direct leap route. It has shut down the long-distance navigation system. I am trying to bypass its blocks but… They are beyond my understanding.” She shrugged, still reviewing the data.
“How is this possible? Does this mean we are trapped?”
“No, it appears that the Valhalla wants us to take a far longer route. It is as if it wants us to go back for her…” Eskandal murmured.
“The spaceship wants us to? Do whatever you must… Make that system operative as soon as possible. We cannot afford a delay of this kind. The situation in the Council could become very difficult.”
“I am afraid that there is only one person who can interact with the spaceship at this level…” Eskandal looked at her with a serious look.
“The boy? I see. Freya, the time has come to wake him,” Brunilda ordered, looking at the Valkyrie.
Freya gave her a disapproving look in return. She wanted to protest but simply nodded and left the bridge. She knew it was inevitable. Despite everything the young man had been through and his current weakened state, he wouldn’t be permitted to rest any longer. He had been unconscious, in a state of shock, ever since they had rescued him at the very end of the battle. Every now and again he cried out, calling for his loved ones. Eva and Raquel were the names he repeated the most, always with bitterness in his voice and tears in his eyes. She didn’t like to imagine what was running through his mind but he was clearly suffering greatly. She dreaded to think how he would react when she forced him awake, but they had no other choice. A long journey home lay ahead of them. And she had a feeling that the Great Father had set them many more tests to overcome.
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Born in 1982 in Barcelona, Xavier Marcé graduated in Journalism in the city of Seville, where he lives after having lived in Badalona, Casablanca, Zurich, Oslo and Hanoi.
Since 1996 he has specialized in the communication and management of online communities, mainly in the video game sector. He began his journalistic work collaborating for three years in the Micromanía Magazine, being responsible for the Online Zone section. In 2004 he founded, together with David Puig, the first magazine in Spanish specialized in the massively multiplayer online game, Juegaenred.com, and would direct it until 2013, at which time he left it to create a new magazine, GoMultiplayer.
In 2007 he made the leap to the video game industry with Funcom as Spanish Community Manager of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and The Secret World until 2010. Since then, he has combined the publishing world with that of video games, mainly with Megapop Games, launching titles such as Trolls vs Vikings 1 & 2, Meganumbers, Haxity or Rob Riches, and the university world as a teacher in the Master in Online Marketing and Social Media Strategies at the University of Seville.
A proactive and restless person, Xavier Marcé has set out to create new paths for literature with the transmedia literary saga of 'Mark of Odin'. After the release of the first three books of the saga: 'The Awakening', 'The Road to Valhalla' and 'Ragnarok', Marcé launches 'The Stone Lotus' his first independent fiction thriller novel resulting from his stay in Viet Nam in 2022. In 2023 he decides to unify all his current and future works under the brand of
'XaviVerso', Xavier Marcé's literary universe where everything is connected. In addition, he published the political thriller 'Yes, They Will Pass! Civil War in 24 tweets', his most controversial work to date.