Door Into Faerie by Edward Willett

Author:Edward Willett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lake, King Arthur, Arthurian, water, Regina, internet, magic, Excalibur, legend, series, power, inheritance, quest, Lady
ISBN: 9781550508918
Publisher: Coteau Books

Wally had been terrified the last time he’d spoken to his mom. He discovered as he climbed the stairs of the Claymore Arms that nothing had changed. If anything, it was worse this time. From her point of view, he’d run out of the Great Hall to retrieve Flish and simply never come back. She must have been frantically worried about him ever since. How could he explain where he’d been for the past few hours?

She didn’t answer the phone when Alex called, he reminded himself as he paused at the top of the stairs to take a plastic bandage out of the first-aid kit in his backpack, tucking it into his pocket so it would be handy. She might not even be in there. In which case we can just figure out a way to break in, and…

But when he knocked on the door of Room 306, he heard her call, “Who is it?”

He cleared his throat. “It’s Wally, Mom.”

Dead silence for an instance. Then he heard a rustle on the other side of the door – probably Mom peeking through the peephole. That was followed by an audible gasp, almost a shriek, and then the door was flung open.

“Wally!” Mom grabbed him and hugged him. “It is you! Oh, God, Wally, I thought you were dead, I haven’t heard anything since you called your father that one time, and that was months ago!”

Wait, what? “But, Mom,” Wally said cautiously, “you saw me at the castle.”

“Castle?” she said, her voice muffled. She straightened. “No, I didn’t…do you mean you saw me at Castle MacPhaiden? You were there?”

Wally’s mind raced. “Have you talked to Rex Major recently?”

Mom straightened, wiping her eyes. “Why, yes, he called me a little while ago – he’s flying back to Toronto and wanted to make sure I have everything I need for this project of mine he’s funding. Why?”

“I…saw him at the castle,” Wally said. “That’s why I didn’t come to you there. I didn’t want him to see me.” Half of that was true, at least.

Mom clearly had no memory of their earlier meeting, of the argument with Flish, of him running out after her into the rain, and therefore of him not coming back. That could only mean one thing:

Rex Major had heard her account of it, and then Commanded her to forget.

Anger roared up inside him, and most of it was his, even though the shards were close enough, downstairs with Ariane, that he knew they were feeding it, too. But for once he welcomed the sword’s bloodthirsty single-mindedness. Kill your enemies, that was Excalibur’s solution to everything, and the thought of Rex Major forcing his mother to forget she’d already been reunited with her son made that solution seem like a pretty good one. First head I lop off with Excalibur will be yours, Merlin, Wally snarled silently. A part of him recoiled from that, but it was a much smaller part than it used to be.

The phone rang. Mom ignored it.

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