Young Wizards #04 - A Wizard Abroad by Diane Duane

Author:Diane Duane [Duane, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Wizards, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic
ISBN: 9781439517659
Google: 4OwIRQAACAAJ
Amazon: 0152055037
Publisher: Sandpiper
Published: 1993-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

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7. Slieve na Chulainn Great

Sugarloaf Mountain

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“What's going on?" Kit said the next afternoon. 'How are things going with the Treasures?"

They were sitting around the kitchen table, looking at the papers. “Well," Nita's aunt said, “Doris and a couple of the other Seniors are going to go in tonight and get the Ardagh Chalice. They'll leave a perfect copy in its place. They think they have a guess at how to make it wake up. Apparently, whatever they did with the Stone worked better than they thought; it seems your friend Tom is quite an asset," she said to Nita. "They were able to wake it up on the first try, using the spell he wrote for them."

Nita nodded. "He says it's because he used to write so many adverts."

Aunt Annie chuckled. "I guess I can see the point. Well, anyway, it's awake. As you will have noticed, the land is getting, uh, restive… more than it was, anyway."

"Are they going to bring the Stone here? Or somewhere special?" said Kit.

"Oh, no… there's no need for that. The Stone is the earth of Ireland, some ways; anywhere there is earth of Ireland, the Stone is there in essence. The same way that the Cup is the water of Ireland, and all wells and pools; the Sword is the air of Ireland, the Spear is the fire. The Treasures exist in essence in all the things they represent. But when they're awake, they co-exist many times more powerfully than before. They themselves become weapons of considerable power; and the earth and air and water and fire themselves become weapons that we can turn to our advantage. We sincerely hope." She took a drink of her tea.

"What about the Sword?" Kit said.

"It's hard to say," said Annie. "The Cup is more awake than any of the envelopes they're thinking about using for the Sword; so they're going to try the spell on the Chalice first, and see how the re-animation works on that. If it does, they'll move on and try it on the Sword in the museum."

"And the Spear?" Kit said.

Aunt Annie shook her head. "No news. There are a lot of spears and pikes and whatnot lying around, but none of them seem ever to have been the Spear Luin. Which is a problem, for Luin was the weapon that overthrew Balor. The others were basically support for it."

Kit shrugged. "Well, something'll turn up. Something always does."

"I wish I had your confidence," Aunt Annie said, getting up to pour herself another cup.

"Something has to turn up," Kit said. "We're here."

Nita punched him lightly. "Something's always turned up before," she said. "This is not like before j

Kit shrugged again. "Listen, if I can't keep your spirits up, you won't do good work."

"How can my spirits be other than wonderful when I have this to look at?" she said, pushing the paper at him.

The Bray People had come out that morning, and the usual details of the fortunes and misfortunes

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