Camp So-and-So by Mary McCoy

Author:Mary McCoy [McCoy, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adventure, Childrens, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Friendship, Girls, Humour, Magical Realism, Sports, Survival, Thiller, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781512434309
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ™
Published: 2017-02-28T18:30:00+00:00

A Note from the Narrator

It is difficult not to marvel at the advances in changeling technology in recent years. The brutalities you tend to read about in fairy stories—infants switched in their cribs for hobgoblins and that sort of thing—have been happily relegated to the past. So primitive. It is hard to believe that anyone ever got away with it, that anyone ever fell for it. And really, it was only ever possible with infants who were still in that most unformed and blob-like of stages.

Today, what is done is much different. When a creature like Tania takes a liking to a human, she might decide to keep that human for herself. One basic principle from the old days does remain, however. You have to send something back. Otherwise, there would be an outcry.

Unlike the old days, it’s now possible to work with humans of any age. Tania can send back the same girl who’d gone to Camp So-and-So—or most of her, anyway.

The girl would look the same, sound the same. She’d mostly even be the same. It is possible to slice out a representative strata of personality, disposition, likes, and dislikes so that you ended up with two almost identical people.

And if you didn’t get the proportions completely right (and you never did), well, people changed. Concerned families were liable to chalk it up to hormones, the influence of new experiences and new friends, and the like.

The best thing was, when someone Tania had adopted angered her or began to bore her, it was easy enough to dispatch him or her because there was a perfectly adequate copy back in the human world. Tania had been at it for decades now, and she had never been caught. No one ever noticed.

My knowledge of this secret procedure might lead you to believe that I am complicit in the creation of these changelings, or that I somehow condone it, but nothing could be further from the truth.

I come by this information honestly.

My hands are clean.

All that I know, I know firsthand.

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