The Enchanted Quest
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“Wait! It’s too soon. I need to know more!” Her voice was all but drowned by the thunder now and by the raging of the sea. “I need to know how to . . .”
The Harper reached out his hand toward her, the forefinger outstretched.
His finger touched her forehead and her mind flooded with light. The last thing she remembered was what the Divine Harper said: the dearest wish of your heart . . .
Chapter Thirty Four
Anita sat up on her bed, blinking and disoriented.
She felt drowsy and woozy, but outside the open curtains she could see that it was still daylight.
And on top of that she was fully dressed.
What had she been thinking, napping in the middle of the day? What was she, a doddering old granny or something?
She got up, dizzy for a moment. “I’ve got to tell Jade about that dream!” she said, grinning and heading for the computer. “She’ll freak out.”
She sat down, still rubbing the sleep out of her eyes as she turned on the computer and connected to the internet. And Evan—she’d have to tell him, too. He’d be well impressed; he was totally up for freaky things like that: legends and mythology and all that kind of . . . strange . . . old . . .
“Now that’s bizarre,” she said, the chat room open, her fingers poised over the keyboard.
The dream had gone. It had been so vivid—but now she couldn’t remember a single thing about it.
Weird!
She yawned and stretched, her head still foggy. She looked at the time display at the bottom of the screen. 11:09.
Midmorning. But what day was it? Saturday or Sunday?
“Oh great,” she said. “Now I don’t even know what day of the week I’m in! Losing my marbles or what?”
She got up and wandered out of her room, still feeling odd. She clattered down the stairs and turned in the hall, heading for the kitchen.
Her mum was there, at the table, packing her handbag.
Yawning still, Anita strolled in. “Hi, mum,” she said. “What’s up?”
Her mother jumped—then stared at her—a huge smile breaking out across her face. “Tania!” she gasped, running and throwing her arms around her. “Oh, sweetheart, it’s so wonderful to see you! And your dad will be so pleased. We thought we might never see you again!”
Anita stared at her, taken completely aback—half stifled by her mother’s frantic embrace.
“What are you talking about, mum?” she asked. “I was only upstairs.” She stared at her mother, completely baffled by this sudden display of affection. “And who on earth is Tania?”
Follow Tania’s quest to save Faerie in The CHARMED RETURN
Book Six of The FAERIE PATH
Tania wakes up in the Mortal World with no recollection of the past seven weeks. Memories of the Faerie Realm, her princess identity, and her true love, Edric, have vanished, and all recollection of her quest to save Faerie has been lost. With the help of an unexpected ally, Tania learns she must reawaken her Faerie self— but how?
By the light of the Pure Eclipse, a thrilling final battle is waged that affects not only the fate of Faerie, but Tania’s final destiny. Loyalties are tested, true love questioned, and nothing is what it seems. . . .
About the Author
Frewin Jones
has always believed in the existence of “other worlds” that we could just step in and out of if we only knew the way. In the Mortal World, Frewin lives in southeast London with a mystical cat called Siouxsie Sioux. Visit Frewin online at www.allanfrewinjones.com.
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Also by Frewin Jones
The Faerie Path
The Lost Queen
The Seventh Daughter
(also published as The Sorcerer King)
Warrior Princess
Destiny’s Path
Copyright
The Enchanted Quest
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jones, Frewin.
The enchanted quest / by Frewin Jones. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Faerie Path ; #5)
Summary: Princess Tania must travel outside of the Immortal Realm to seek a cure for the plague afflicting her people, while joined in spirit with all of the children of Aurealis to weave a web of protection over the realm of Faerie.
ISBN 978-0-06-087158-1 (trade bdg.)
[1. Faeries—Fiction. 2. Princesses—Fiction. 3. Voyages and travels—Fiction. 4. Sick—Fiction. 5. Fantasy.] I. Title.
PZ7.J71Enc 2010 2009024096
[Fic]—dc22 CIP
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EPub Edition © 2009 ISBN: 9780061966569
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
The Story So Far . . .
Part One: Wingèd We Were Before Time Was . . .
chapter One
chapter Two
chapter Three
chapter Four
chapter Five
chapter Six
chapter Seven
chapter Eight
chapter Nine
chapter Ten
Part Two: Beyond the Shores of Faerie
chapter Eleven
chapter Twelve
chapter Thirteen
chapter Fourteen
chapter Fifteen
chapter Sixteen
chapter Seventeen
Part Three: The Dark Arts
chapter Eighteen
chapter Ninteen
chapter Twenty
chapter Twenty One
chapter Twenty Two
Part Four: Of Witchcraft and Wonderment
chapter Twenty Three
chapter Twenty Four
chapter Twenty Five
chapter Twenty Six
chapter Twenty Seven
chapter Twenty Eight
chapter Twenty Nine
Part Five: The Land Beyond the World’s End
chapter Thirty
chapter Thirty One
chapter Thirty Two
chapter Thirty Three
chapter Thirty Four
The Charmed Return
About the Author
Also by Frewin Jones
Copyright
About the Publisher