It’s #BookQW and ‘fear’ or not, Beri has a problem to face.
More from Chapter 7:
As Beri walked through the woods, alone and among familiar flowers, trees and shrubs, the weight of dealing with the faire dropped from his shoulders. Even the calls of the birds were mostly the same as on the isle, and the deer had nibbled twigs of their favored shrubs. The best thing, thank the Orb, was no crowd. Here, the sounds of nature swept the estate’s hum to the background, and he had no fear of the automobiles while he was among the tree trunks.
Though muffled, the traffic noise still reached him. Could humans never escape it? This only proved that the human world was not the place for him. That was a difference in the wizard versus human lives to relay to Merlin: Wizards lived more quietly.
He had to shake the fear that made his skin crawl and steel himself for the rest of this endless day. Emptying his mind of what was yet to come, he breathed the scent of soil and decomposing leaves.
Ahead grew a good-sized oak with many lower limbs, and it was nothing to grip the rough bark and pull himself up into it. His back to the trunk—and the faire—he settled in with a view of birds flying about the trees.
Raven broke into his thoughts, and Beri’s first reaction was to brush him off. Ach, Raven was going to get them in trouble again. He shouldn’t answer… Then Raven’s question sank in: Where are you and Coral?
I am… What do you mean? Isn’t Coral with you and the group?
No, and neither are you.
Merlin’s orders of stay together echoed in his head. I watched until she rejoined the group. I…needed time alone. It was one thing for him to be alone among the trees. The woods were safe. But a fourteenth-year lass alone in this crowd with no magic…
Beri rose to stand on the limb. This communication is against the rules—
Don’t you think I bloody well know it? Raven shouted in his head. We have a blasted problem.
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