The Celtic Witch Mysteries Collection Two by Molly Milligan

Author:Molly Milligan [Milligan, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-three

She didn’t take the long way through the trees. Instead she went straight down the steeper slope that dropped sharply into the lake, and as soon as she hit the water, she was transformed into a beautiful maiden once more, slipping through the waves with all the ease of a mermaid. Her long hair fanned around her as her head broke the surface and she turned to shout spiteful things up at me.

“You don’t even know what is yours!” she spat and hissed. “You won’t know until he’s gone! Then you’ll see.” She twisted and dived under the surface of the lake and when her head popped up again, she was two hundred metres away and just a blob on the water. And she was heading around the island to the causeway, and to where Adam and Dean were waiting for us.

It was still daylight on the island. The insane rocketing between night and day had stopped now, and the sun was travelling more slowly towards a nice, pleasant and almost normal mid-afternoon. It felt more summery than it ought to have done, but that’s Faerieland for you.

Maddie was standing near the pinned Glyn who was still trying to muster up as much of his remaining power as possible to pull the spear free from his shadow but he couldn’t get close enough without the magical wood burning him. He hopped and cursed, trying to run away from it, but inevitably being drawn back.

“I’ll go,” she said.

“What?”

“I can run faster than you. I will go to Adam and Dean. You know what she meant, right?”

“I … do know,” I said, weakly. “Okay, yes, I trust you. I know you. You can do it. And … and anyway, Adam would want me to stay here and pursue justice.”

Maddie nodded, solemnly, and ran off through the trees like a hare.

Glyn stopped his mad circling and stood there, his fists by his sides like an angry gorilla. He was an incongruous sight in his running gear. He was out of breath, and his unkempt lank hair hung over his sweating forehead. His eyes were wild with fury and frustration. “Now what are you going to do?” he growled. “Be my judge, right here?”

“Of course not. You are coming back to the real world with me.”

“How?”

That was a very good question.

I realised that the whole proceedings had been watched by the king. Curiously, he was still sitting on his throne, which was now on a low rise a few metres away. I don’t imagine he’d carried it outside himself – that would have been a comical sight. I swallowed my anti-monarchist tendencies and went to bow on one knee before him.

If I’d learned anything from watching and listening to Maddie’s dealings with this entity, I needed to use those lessons now. I had been rude before, and he had allowed it, but now I needed to be humble.

“My Lord,” I managed to say. “I have won this man and I must take him.”

“I understand.

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