Children of Time (The After Cilmeri Series Book Four) by Sarah Woodbury

Author:Sarah Woodbury
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: The Morgan-Stanwood Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-21T11:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

19 November 2016

Meg

I pulled into the parking lot outside of Chepstow Castle at four in the morning. Llywelyn peered through the windscreen. The rain that had fallen unrelentingly since Ystwyth had tapered off in the last few minutes. With two more sweeps of the wipers, the windscreen cleared.

“It doesn’t look too bad.” Llywelyn meant the castle, not the weather. In fact, in the years I’d been with him, both when I was younger and more recently, I’d never heard him complain even once about the weather. He only cared about it if it impacted his current plans or strategy.

“In this world, we never took it,” I said. “Chepstow was fortified until the 1600’s, when the government deliberately made it indefensible.”

“What could possibly have motivated them to do that?” Llywelyn said.

I ran a hand across my eyes. “The English crown has had its ups and downs in the last seven hundred years. There was a period in the 1600’s when parliament deposed the king and a man named Oliver Cromwell ran the country.”

“Ahh,” Llywelyn said. “Like Simon de Montfort in the Barons’ war.”

“Cromwell was more righteous about it, I think, and believed he was chosen by God,” I said. “Under his oversight, Parliament executed the king and abolished the monarchy.”

“Where was Wales in this?” Llywelyn said.

“Mostly supporting the king.” I smirked. “Ironic, I know.”

“At what hour can we enter the castle?” Goronwy said.

“If Chepstow is like other castles I’ve been to, nine o’clock in the morning.” I started the car again. “We should try to sleep until then if we can. We’ll need to buy the life jackets too, before we go in. And maybe get a good breakfast and some provisions. We never know where we’re going to end up, and if it turns out to be like what happened to me the last time, our location could be remote.” I pulled out of the parking space and back onto the street.

“Where are we going?” Llywelyn said.

“We shouldn’t park so close to the castle,” I said. “It’s too conspicuous if someone is looking for us.”

“Someone,” Goronwy said.

“How could the government possibly know where we’ll be?” Llywelyn said.

“You forget, Llywelyn. They have Ted,” Goronwy said.

Llywelyn nodded. “I do forget. He wouldn’t stand up well to any pressure. A few well-placed punches or a broken finger and he’d talk.”

“He did leave us his keys,” Goronwy said. “Maybe he’s stronger than we think.”

I coughed a laugh. “We call such questioning torture, and it’s illegal in this time.” At Llywelyn’s scowl, I added, “not that it doesn’t happen. Even so, you’re right that Ted might still not understand the gravity of our situation. I can see that if his friend were present, Ted wouldn’t see a problem with mentioning that we arrived here by jumping off the balcony at Chepstow.”

I found a parking space on a one-way street a few blocks from the castle, among a line of other cars parked for the night. I showed Llywelyn how to lean back his seat.

“How

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