Tregarthur's Crystal: Book 4 (The Tregarthur's Series) by Alex Mellanby

Author:Alex Mellanby
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781909776210
Publisher: Cillian Press Limited
Published: 2017-07-01T05:00:00+00:00

No point in going over this, we had no explanation. Getting any more out of Demelza was a pain and even with violence I couldn’t trust what she said. ‘See what happens,’ I said, before we re-joined the other two and walked on again.

Soon we were high enough to see the balanced Hanging Stones and we made our way to stand in front of them. HG seemed to think it was magical, he couldn’t believe that the stones wouldn’t break apart. He tried over and over again, making small grunts and wails. I worried that HG wasn’t completely in touch with reality, but we were talking about time travel.

Jenna went and banged on the rocks, banged with the piece of crystal she had taken from Demelza, and nothing happened. We all took turns to do the same thing. Still nothing happened.

The drizzle turned to rain. We sheltered beneath the few overhanging rocks, ate some of the food Bettie had sold us – a potato pie – and we waited. It grew dark. We waited, hoping the tunnel might appear.

HG seemed to sink into himself, saying nothing and staring wildly at us. Perhaps it was our conversation, which had turned through all the weird things that had happened. As always we talked about the others who had been with us, some from the very start, some who had died and that stopped us talking altogether.

We slept, damp and restless. In the night I wondered about wolves but we heard nothing. As the light returned, mist started to rise up from the valley, a damp blanket that made me shiver.

Again Jenna went and hit the Hanging Stones with the piece of crystal. She smashed it down over and over again until her hands were raw and bleeding. Nothing happened.

Demelza joined her. ‘We’ll get it back for you,’ she shouted. Her voice echoed across the moor. Nothing came from the stones. If the tunnel did have any life of its own, I doubted it would believe anything Demelza offered.

A weak sun appeared, but strong enough to chase away some of the mist. I stood and stretched, looking out on the moor. A fantastic place, if a bit wet. Those huge stones standing on the top of each tor, frowning down at the world. Standing watch over centuries of change, from the time of the cavemen to modern life, over people like we once were, children at school going for a hike.

I almost laughed thinking how it had all started. But here we were, stuck in a time that was not our own. It wasn’t right, we had to get home somehow. Once, Jenna and I had the crazy idea of staying in a cave, trying to make a new life. It would never have worked. We just had to face all our problems at home. But how could we ever get there?

I joined the two girls and ran my hands over the rough stones. Their balance appeared so fragile. They didn’t look natural, looked as though they had been made to confuse anyone who tried to pull them apart.

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