In the Shade of a Shadow of Reason by Verna Lee Hutton-Ely

Author:Verna Lee Hutton-Ely [Hutton-Ely, Verna Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: WestBowPress
Published: 2011-10-03T04:00:00+00:00

19 – The Knowing Ledge

Lucy was exhausted from drudging up her past and presenting it to Michael. “What must he think of me?” His concern seemed genuine, and she didn’t blame him for the rough way he had questioned her. After all, she put him through a lot in the short time she’d known him. He had asked her to tell him everything, but she had only told him about the episodes of missing time. Fred saved her from getting into the Fairytale, as Lance called it.

Though Lance had told her many things, she knew he had not told her everything. She wondered now if his promise of someday would be kept. She knew he had been investigating sacred sites, looking for portals into other dimensions, and that the dolmen from which he went missing was thought by the locals to be an entrance into the fairy realm. Had he willingly exited this world, or had he been taken by the wee folk—Angus’s kin—as legend suggested they would do if one got too close to their gates?

What he was planning to do now, she did not know. From the brief reunion they had had in the stone circle and from his words to her in the smoke ring, she gathered he had somehow found his way to this other dimension and that a war was going on there. What his role was in it, she dare not guess. She hoped to find some of the answers in William’s journals. She was certain The Green Book contained valuable information that could answer many of her questions, if it were found, and that Michael was somehow the key to finding it. From William’s written words she knew he considered Lance’s work important and his reports very valuable, so much so that he kept them hidden from everyone. Lucy knew now that Michael was the one person his grandfather had trusted above anyone else, even Myra.

She was glad Michael hadn’t asked her to leave. He had assured her that he would help her, and she desperately wanted to believe him. He promised her Sunday evening as a time they could talk alone. She was resolved now to tell him everything. “Would he believe it?” she wondered. Sometimes she didn’t believe it herself. When a shadow of reason would come upon her, she wondered if Lance really existed at all, or if he were just a dream she had invented to keep herself searching for joy in a world where she felt foreign and alone. She wrestled with her mind at those times to hold on to that dream. She closed her eyes and remembered the kiss in the garden the night Lance found her, the kiss that had carried her to the green and golden lands that felt like her home. Then she remembered how Mrs. Garrett’s window opened and he vanished.

She searched for his picture among her things at Michael’s, but it wasn’t there. She was certain she had thoroughly scoured her apartment for it.

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