The Camelot Code by Mari Mancusi

Author:Mari Mancusi [Mancusi, Mari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV064000 JUVENILE FICTION / Time Travel; JUV022010 JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / Arthurian; JUV016070 JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Medieval; JUV012040 JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations; JUV019000 JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
Publisher: NLA Digital, LLC
Published: 2014-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Morgan Le Fay leaned against a nearby oak tree in twenty-first-century America, exhausted. Time travel spells were brutally complicated and physically exhausting and she was now suffering the aftereffects of her major cast. In fact, at the moment, she was so drained of magical energy, she found she barely had enough spark left to even cast the tracking spell on her brother, to help pinpoint his exact location.

But she knew she couldn't afford to rest. It might take her a week to fully recharge her magic after casting such a large spell. And she didn't have time to spare. If she didn't find Arthur now—if she didn't manage to kill him before he went back to his own time and back to Merlin's protective embrace—she would likely lose her opportunity altogether.

And she wasn't about to let that happen.

Where was he? The tracking spell had led her here, to some kind of large building surrounded by a black field of metal carriages, but it couldn't pinpoint her brother in the crowd and now she was on her own. The sign read SACRED MARY HIGH, which led her to believe it was a monastery or nunnery of some sort. Yet she saw no priests or nuns—only scantily clad children walking to and fro. Perhaps some kind of religious orphanage?

Morgan knew about orphanages all too well. She'd been sent to live in one by her stepfather, High King Uther Pendragon, in the months after Merlin took baby Arthur away. She'd tried to protest, insisting her place was by her mother's side in their Cornwell castle of Tintagel by the sea. But Uther was on a mission—to rid the castle of any reminder of his wife's first marriage, and that included her daughter. And her mother, so in love with her new husband, refused to speak out in her defense.

So Morgan was sent away—to live in poverty and squalor—while her mother took the throne as high queen of the land. As her mother attended great ceremonies, dressed in silk gowns dripping with jewels, Morgan was starved, beaten, and otherwise abused. Each night, as her mother would curl up in a great bed piled with sumptuous furs, Morgan would shiver in her cold, dark cell, vowing revenge on the man who killed her father and took her mother away.

And now she would finally have it. She had killed Uther and now she would kill his son—before he ever had a chance to rise to his father's throne. Arthur Pendragon, son of Uther, would not pull the sword from the stone and take his father's place as high king. Instead, he would die here, a stranger in a strange land. Ending the Pendragon lineage forever and tearing Britain apart.

She cackled to herself, imagining Merlin's face when he realized his promised child, the one who he'd been training all these years, had perished at her hand. Only then would he realize her true power and finally bow down before her, begging for mercy.

She turned her attention back to the orphanage.

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