The Search for the Red Dragon by James A Owen

Author:James A Owen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2008-02-05T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Shadows of History

At Daedalus’s su estion, the companions and the Lost Boys left the orchard and returned to the more secure confines of Haven proper. The crenellated towers extended all around the orchard and gardens as well, but all of them felt an easing of tension at the idea of being within more closely built walls.

Jack had continued to evince further changes as a result of his transformation. It was as if he had forgotten being an adult, except when a point in the conversation required some arcane bit of knowledge that only he possessed. Then he rattled off details that made him seem exactly what he was: an Oxford professor in a ten-year-old boy’s body.

On the walk up the path, they again passed by Echo’s Well, where Daedalus asked John and Charles if they wouldn’t like to reconsider, now that they’d seen that no harm had come to Jack.

“Thank you, no,” said John. “I think one of us having the perspective of a child is enough.”

“But as you can clearly see,” Daedalus persisted, “he’s lost none of his ability to reason, and none of his education. It’s simply being filtered through a more youthful point of view.”

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