Old Magic by Marianne Curley

Author:Marianne Curley [Curley, Marianne]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, General, Fiction, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction; Fantasy; Magic, Fantasy & Magic, Love & Romance, Schools, Girls & Women, Supernatural, Historical, Medieval, Historical - Medieval, Boys & Men, Time travel
ISBN: 9781416989912
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Old Magic

Part Three

RETURN

Jarrod

She makes me promise never to read her thoughts, no matter the circumstances. I don’t want to anyway, so the promise is easy to keep. Without it, there would be a problem with privacy. This agreement makes things easier between us.

We arrive back at the same place we left, by the creek in the forest. Jillian’s still standing where we left her, keeping a silent vigil in the rain forest, keeping the circle blazing and protected. It turns out we were only away a few hours, even though it was over a month at Thorntyne Keep. She hands me my watch and glasses. I thank her, glad to have them back.

It darkens quickly with the candles extinguished, but I hardly notice. We’re both exhausted, the return journey has taken a lot out of us both, but especially Kate, who hasn’t recovered completely from Rhauk’s drugs. Jillian and I have to help her walk.

At the house, Jillian sits us down at the kitchen table and brews Kate a hot herbal drink that smells vaguely familiar. When she’s made sure Kate’s drunk more than half of it, Jillian starts pounding us with questions. Hours later we’re still talking. Jillian wants to know it all. We tell her as much as possible without revealing everything, especially the sharing the bedroom part. Her eyes never leave us. She hangs on every word, and laughs when Kate tells her about Emmeline’s “crush” on me and how she almost came back with us, startling us both with her presence just as we were saying the Latin chant.

“Luckily I was able to stun her thoughts, long enough for us to escape,” I explain.

Jillian agrees it would have been disastrous if Emmeline had forced her way back with us. “Your father’s heritage book is very clear on Emmeline’s future,” Jillian informs us. “She is sent to live at the Palace, where she meets and becomes the Earl of Drysdon’s mistress, bearing him three illegitimate sons. She is never happy though, as the Earl’s wife makes her life miserable.”

Jillian astonishes us with this information, and suddenly I feel sorry for my ancestral “cousin.”

Kate starts telling Jillian about the battle with Rhauk. Immediately she gets up to take a look at my wounds. “The stitches look fine, I’ll dress them again in the morning.”

It’s not long before Kate starts falling asleep at the table and Jillian sends her to bed. When she’s gone, I try to thank Jillian, and I mean for everything she’s done. But I know simple words are not enough. She collects my clothes, making a huge fuss over them. They’re not the original ones she stitched for us, but, as these are truly originals, she will treasure them more.

I doze eventually on a mattress laid out for me on the floor, and it turns out Kate and I sleep for two whole days. We wake on Friday morning, having missed a couple of days of school. We’re not particularly worried about this as Jillian covered for us at school and with my mother.

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