Faun & Games by Anthony Piers;

Author:Anthony, Piers;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2019-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

10

TORUS

Forrest approached. “I must explain. We are from the world of—of Ptero. Do you understand?”

“Oh, my, yes! But I have never had visitors from there before. How nice.”

“I am Forrest Faun, and this is Mare Imbrium, and these are Dawn & Eve, the daughters of Prince Dolph and Electra.”

“I am so glad to meet you.”

“Do you have nieces here?” Dawn asked.

“I don’t think I do. But this is not the same world as Ptero.”

“Yes,” Eve said. “We have been trying to get used to its rules. We have come to stop its Wizards from hurting our people on Ptero.”

“Oh, are they doing that? I didn’t know.”

“I’m afraid they are,” Forrest said. “We hoped that you would know how to stop them.”

Ida shook her head. This caused her moon to wobble and careen into view. Apparently it had been hiding behind her head until now.

“Look at that!” Dawn exclaimed.

“A doughnut!” Eve said.

The moon zipped back into hiding.

“Please don’t use that word,” Ida said. “The correct term is Torus.”

“Oh, we’re sorry,” Dawn said, blushing a modest blue.

“Extremely sorry,” Eve agreed, blushing an immodest blue. “We’re so ignorant.”

Forrest knew that this was at least in part an act, similar to their flirtation with him, but it was nevertheless impressive. The twins were very good at manners.

“Well, I suppose you couldn’t know,” Ida said. “Being from another world.”

“Yes, but we want so much to learn,” Dawn said.

“And never to make the same mistake again,” Eve said.

Ida glanced at Forrest in a way that indicated that she was not being much fooled. “At any rate, I was saying to my regret that I don’t know the answer to your problem. The Blue Wizard has confined me to this island, to keep me, as he puts it, out of mischief. I am surprised that you were able to locate me so readily.”

“We asked around,” Forrest said. “We thought that since you have the Sorceress talent of the Idea, you might have an idea about how we might proceed.”

“Why yes, of course.”

“You mean you do know how to stop the Wizards?”

“No. But I do know how you should proceed.”

They looked at her blankly.

“You see,” Ida explained, “I know where the answer is to be found. I don’t have it, because I can’t go there.” Her eyes fixed momentarily on her moon.

Oh, no! “On Torus?” Forrest asked weakly.

“Yes. I’m sure that the Ida who lives there has the answer. That’s why the Wizard confined me: to be sure that no one had access to my moon. And no creature of this world is able to come here; a powerful spell repels them. But perhaps he didn’t reckon on visitors from another world.”

It was beginning to make sense. “We are certainly from other worlds,” Forrest said. “The girls are from Ptero, but Imbri and I derive originally from Xanth.”

“Xanth? What realm is that?”

Forrest exchanged half a glance with Imbri. Ida didn’t know about Xanth? “It is a larger land,” Imbri said in a dreamlet. “On it is Princess Ida, about whose head Ptero orbits.

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