by Jack Challis
The young woman regarded Blodwyn first with curiosity in a rather cold and confident way: then smiled. Perhaps she noticed their physical similarities. She then returned to her labors. Their meeting was over!
Blodwyn carried on; what else could she do – how could she engage in conversation, how could she answer any questions – how could she explain her presence. She carried on to the enchanted pool, surrounded by silver birch and mountain rowan (the fairy tree) it looked exactly the same.
Lifting her frock she waded into the pool; it had suddenly come to her how to make good use of the gold given to her by the Sillian. She buried the two gold statues fashioned by the Ora Pellas into the base of the bank, a foot from a large rock on the bank that was still there in modern time. She also buried the bright red stone the Stabasade had offered her for a drink of her blood!
Blodwyn took the lonely way back and hoped the distant ancestors of the Galla Qualls would be safe in the hands of the Worm-eaters and the Medusa. She paused at the pool after the Goose girl’s Weir. She looked down into the still, clear pool and smiled; a reflection smiled back: it was not her reflection. She looked down in the water again the young Flame-haired girl she had seen earlier in the garden was smiling at her. The reflection in the water reached out a hand as if to touch her…Blodwyn responded. She suddenly felt a strange sensation; the kind of pleasant sensation you get before a sneeze – her hand only touched water: time had caught up with her! All those weeks she had taken off her life when traveling back in time had also caught her up; she was now her exact age: sweet seventeen.
‘Blodwyn!’ she heard her Mother call from downstairs. ‘If I have to call you again… it’s the wooden spoon for you my girl… seventeen or not!’
Blodwyn smiled she was back in her home again.
The End
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Also by Jack Challis
Manus Xingue
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In Search of the Alter Dom
(Part One of ‘The Antares Cluster’ Trilogy)
Coming soon: ‘In the wrong place at the right time’
A book of enchantments; enchanted seduction and the beguilement of mortals. Also includes the novelette ‘Caresses me and come to me’