The Once and Future Geek by Mari Mancusi

Author:Mari Mancusi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2018-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

Morgana leaned against an oak tree in twenty-first-century America, exhausted. Time-travel spells were brutally complicated and physically exhausting, and she was now suffering the aftereffects of her major cast. In fact, at the moment, she was so drained of magical energy, she barely had enough spark left to even cast the tracking spell on her brother, to help pinpoint his exact location.

She knew she couldn’t afford to rest, though it might take her a week to fully recharge her magic, and she didn’t have time to spare. If she didn’t find Arthur soon—if she didn’t manage to kill him before he went back to his own time and back to Merlin’s protection—she would lose her opportunity altogether.

And she wasn’t about to let that happen.

Where was he? The tracking spell had led her here, into some kind of large building surrounded by a black field of metal carriages, but it couldn’t pinpoint her brother in the crowd, and now she was on her own. The sign read SACRED MARY JUNIOR HIGH, which led her to believe it was a monastery or nunnery of some sort. Yet she saw no priests or nuns—only oddly dressed children walking to and fro. Perhaps some kind of religious orphanage?

Morgana knew about orphanages. She’d been sent to live in one by her stepfather, Uther, after Merlin took baby Arthur away. She’d tried to protest, insisting her place was by her mother’s side in their Cornwall castle of Tintagel by the sea. But Uther was on a mission—to rid the castle of any reminder of his wife’s first marriage, and that included her daughter. And her mother, so in love with her new husband, refused to speak out in her defense.

So Morgana was sent away—to live in poverty and squalor—while her mother took the throne as high queen of the land. Each night, as her mother curled up in a great bed piled with sumptuous furs, Morgana would shiver in her cold, dark cell, vowing revenge on the man who killed her father and took her mother away.

And now she would finally have it. She had killed Uther and now she would kill his son—before he ever had a chance to rise to his father’s throne. Arthur Pendragon, son of Uther, would not pull the sword from the stone and take his father’s place as high king. Instead, he would die here, a stranger in a strange land. Ending the Pendragon lineage forever and tearing Britain apart.

Morgana cackled to herself, imagining Merlin’s face when he realized his promised child, the one he’d been training all these years, had perished at her hand. Only then would he realize her true power and finally bow down before her, begging for mercy.

She turned her attention back to the orphanage. She’d done her best to fit in, casting a glamour on herself in order to appear as one of them. Now she wore the same short plaid skirt the other girls wore, along with a stiff white tunic top and woolen socks pulled to her knees.

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