Accidental Legend by Derek Power

Author:Derek Power
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: comedy, filthy henry, fairy detective, celtic mythology
Publisher: Derek Power
Published: 2016-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

THE SOUND OF A CAR pulling up outside caught Cathal's attention. He pulled back the yellowed-from-age net curtain of his bedroom window and looked out to see a taxi stopping beside the front door of the house.

Down below the passenger door opened and Dru the Druid jumped out. He ran around to the back-door on the driver's side and opened it. Reaching inside, the druid started to pull something large out from the back-seat. When it was half way out the other rear door opened and a young, attractive, woman stepped out and walked around to help Dru. Cathal had seen that walk often enough to know without seeing a face that it was Alice.

Alice. In his front garden. With Dru. At his house. While Cathal was the most sober he had ever been since discovering alcohol.

There was so much possibility here that Cathal was not entirely sure what to do. He smoothed back his hair with two swift hand movements, straightened his jumper a bit, then turned from the window and left the bedroom, nearly ripping the bedroom door from its hinges with his excitement. The stairs were taken two at a time, the final step being completely jumped over. Cathal landed on the old, stained, carpet of the hall with a smile on his face. He walked over to the front door and opened it wide, just as Dru and Alice approached. Between them they held Shelly. A very unconscious Shelly.

"What happened to her?" Cathal asked, offering to take the arm that Alice held.

"Nothing," Dru said. "For the love of all that is holy don't mention it to Filthy Henry or he will kill me. Just give us a hand to get her into the living room. He's not here, is he?"

They carried Shelly's limp form down the hall and into the living room, bringing her over and carefully laying her down on the sofa. Alice followed, holding in her hand a metal hurley stick. She placed it on the small coffee table in front of the fireplace, taking great care to never actually touch the table itself.

For the first time ever Cathal wished he had gotten around to redecorating the place. In fact even the phrase 'redecorate' was doing the house a great disservice. He should have just decorated the rooms as soon as the house had passed into his ownership. How was a man with property meant to impress the woman of his dreams if he did not bother to put up some new wallpaper every few years?

"I'm just in the middle of a big overhaul of the place," Cathal mumbled at Alice.

She blinked once and shook her head.

"Sorry?" Alice said.

"Nothing," Cathal answered. "Just saying I'm in the middle of a remodel. It doesn't always look like this."

Alice pursed her lips together and looked at a large section of scorched carpet beside the fireplace.

"Right..." she said, staring at a clump of wallpaper lump in the corner of the room.

Cathal cursed himself for not being better at the whole 'talking to women you were attracted to' thing and turned his attention back to Shelly.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.