Victories by Mercedes Lackey

Author:Mercedes Lackey [Lackey, Mercedes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780765317643
Google: wiUEAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0765317648
Publisher: Tor Teen
Published: 2014-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

SIX

It was several long hours on the road before they reached the missile silo once more. Long enough for Spirit to tell everyone the whole story about Oakhurst: that Doctor Ambrosius was really the evil sorcerer Mordred, that he’d orphaned everyone who had magic, that he intended to start a war so he could rule the world.

It sounded more ridiculous each time she said it, but nobody laughed. After spending the last two weeks locked in their rooms, the Oakhurst kids might not believe the whole story she was telling them, but they certainly believed something horrible was going on. Some of them had still been wearing their class rings when they’d fled the school, but Spirit had made sure everyone threw them away while they were still on the bus. And even the four kids from Radial, to whom all the talk about sorcery and wizard wars was new and unbelievable, didn’t scoff. Having woken up to see their town turned into a medieval village seemingly overnight, the Townies knew better than to say anything was impossible.

After the round of obvious questions (why didn’t they go to the police or the FBI or the government?) everybody settled down to a weary silence. Fortunately, Addie’s Cauldron-magic was able to feed them along the way, and between Loch and Addie, they managed to find a much shorter route than the original one QUERCUS had given Spirit. But Spirit still had plenty of time to worry about the next thing. What were they going to do when they got to the silo? Maybe Addie could work her Cauldron-magic to keep all of them fed, but where were they all going to sleep? How was she going to convince everyone not to just go running off to find the nearest phone?

The only part Spirit had left out of her explanation had been the stuff about the Reincarnates. She was the only one who could awaken the memories of the Grail Knights (unless Addie, Burke, or Loch could do it too, but somehow she didn’t think they could), and she still couldn’t decide how she felt about that, especially after watching Dylan’s reaction to being Awakened.

Dylan was sitting halfway to the back of the bus, pale and silent, just as he’d been ever since he’d rejoined them. She was more relieved by his silence than she wanted to admit to herself. She didn’t want Dylan telling everyone he was really Gareth Beaumains, and they were all spear-carriers in an Arthurian Myth.

Although Loch’s the only one with an actual spear.…

The reason Dylan was following her lead, Spirit suspected, was because he recognized her, Burke, and Loch. Gareth Beaumains had been a knight of the Round Table. That wouldn’t work for everyone, because she knew from hearing about the Shadow Knight Reincarnates that not all of them had been from Arthur’s Court—or even on Arthur’s side. But despite the additional problems that came with adding three-dozen refugees—and possible Reincarnates—to the people she had to watch over, Spirit couldn’t really regret having done it.

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