[Brenda & Effie 04] - Hell's Belles by Paul Magrs

Author:Paul Magrs [Magrs, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780755374441
Google: a6malY56pocC
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Ladies of the Canyon

‘Effie? Effie lovey, are you all right?’

‘What? What is it?’

‘I think . . . I think we’ve arrived.’

Brenda was getting shakily to her feet. She swayed unsteadily as she cricked back her head and stared about at their new environment. They were in a canyon of dark blue stone. The jagged walls stretched high above them on either side. Every move they made dislodged shards of slate, and the sluthery noise echoed about them.

‘Arrived where, ducky?’ Effie said crossly, opening her eyes and struggling to stand. ‘What are you talking about? We weren’t going anywhere. We were sitting in your living room and . . .’

She couldn’t deny the evidence of her own senses, though. Effie was a pragmatist above all else. Suddenly it was daytime and they were in the open air. Or at least, in the chilly confines of this—

‘Quarry,’ Brenda said. ‘We’re in a quarry.’

Effie drew nearer, as the realisation hit. ‘Just like the one in that film!’

‘I’ve been here before,’ Brenda said. ‘This chill in the air. The atmosphere of this place. It’s all so familiar. We’re in Wales . . .’ Her voice trailed off, and they listened to the sibilant echoes rolling away.

‘But how?’ Effie said. ‘By magic? Who would want to send us to Wales? What would be the point?’

A shower of dust and gravel pattered about them, and instantly Brenda was on the alert. ‘Effie! Move, quickly!’

Someone high above them had dislodged a chunk of rock. The two ladies barely had time to scurry away before it came crashing to the valley floor. They got themselves under a convenient overhang in the nick of time.

‘Someone’s trying to kill us,’ Brenda squawked. She tried to see, but the rock face was too high, and the fall had sent plumes of blue dust everywhere.

Effie was elsewhere. ‘Look. We’re wearing the same clothes that we were tonight, at home in Whitby.’

‘So?’

‘Well then, we really have been transported. This isn’t a dream, or anything like that. We’re really here.’

They wandered for a while along the valley floor.

Soon they could hear the not-too-distant sounds of others who had come to this desolate place.

They came within sight of a film crew, working busily at the end of the valley.

‘You know what this means,’ Brenda said, grabbing her friend’s arm.

Frankly, Effie didn’t. She was cold and confused and rather tired by now. She didn’t even know what day it was. ‘What does it mean?’ she snapped crossly.

‘We’ve come back in time,’ Brenda told her. ‘We’ve gone into the Making of the Movie. We’ve gone Behind the Scenes. We’ve ended up inside the DVD extras! I don’t know how we got here. Or whether it’s even possible. But somehow we’re back in 1967.’

Effie was scandalised. ‘But how can that be?’

‘All I know is that over there, that’s the cast and crew of the original version of Get Thee Inside Me, Satan. Those are their caravans and everything. I was here, remember. And now I’ve come back.’ Brenda looked as perplexed as Effie had ever seen her.

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