The Timepiece and the Girl Who Went Astray: A thrilling new time travel adventure by O.R. Simmonds

Author:O.R. Simmonds [Simmonds, O.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Appellation Press
Published: 2021-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

May 17th, 1984, 06:48

Will, Frenz and Avy had continued to speak throughout the day. By the time Avy had finished the account of her experience with Cillian Gander seventeen years prior, they had worked their way through four pots of tea, two packs of rich tea biscuits, a chicken and mushroom pie and a few slices of homemade apple amber. The sun had begun to set, casting near horizontal rays of light through the kitchen.

It was obvious to Will that Frenz and Avy had been close and, for Avy at least, they hadn’t spoken in years. There were still some things that went unsaid between them. Will had been fighting sleep since they’d arrived in Dingle, so after they’d eaten dinner together, he retired to bed to allow the two of them some time alone. Avy had offered him the sofa in the living room. By this point, Will could have slept anywhere. Before turning in for the night, Will had, with Frenz’s insistence and Avy’s reassurance, reluctantly agreed to hand the Timepiece over so that it could be inspected. It was, after all, one of the reasons they had made the journey to see Avy in the first place. He had felt his gut lurch horribly as he peeled the sturdy leather strap from his wrist and handed it over.

With the comforting warmth and weight of the Timepiece – his one true link to Abigayle – stripped from him, he had fallen into an uneasy sleep.

He awoke the following morning to the sound of seagulls. Sunlight was streaming in through the window. Sitting up, he shielded his eyes as his head passed through a bright band of light that shone across the back of the sofa. He arched his back and groaned, clutching at his ribs. They had taken the brunt of the impact when he and Frenz dove through the air while evading the two Timekeepers and now there was a dull ache when he breathed. That, or the painful longing in his heart to see Abigayle was manifesting itself physically. Either way, he hoped that nothing was broken. He rubbed his eyes, then rose from the sofa and staggered back towards the kitchen as if drunk. Will wasn’t a morning person.

He could hear a muffled voice through the frosted glass of the sliding doors that separated the kitchen from the living room. Stopping short of the doors, he felt the anxiety course through him. In the few days since Abigayle’s disappearance, Will had become more and more paranoid, wary of the slightest thing out of the ordinary. He pressed his ear against the glass to better hear the voice. It had neither Frenz’s Caribbean twang nor Avy’s light Austrian drawl.

Is there someone else in the room with them? he suddenly thought, breathing deeply, pushing the pain to the back of his mind.

He stepped sideways and peered in through a narrow crack in the door. He could see Avy sitting at the kitchen table in the same seat she’d sat in the night before.

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