Excerpt from Away With the Fairies - FREE This Weekend

Here's an excerpt from Away With the Fairies, my very slightly sinister fairy
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Excerpt from Away With the Fairies


"Lucy!"
June stopped dead in the bedroom doorway. Lucy was sitting staring at the wall.
Again. She did it all the time these days. Mum said she was suffering from some
sort of condition that made her go into a trance. It sounded like someone's name
– Betty Moll? – something like that. But Granny McCurdle said, "Och, she's away
wi' the fairies again." And that sounded so much nicer.
Even so, she didn't want to wake her up. You weren't supposed to wake people up
if they were sleepwalking. Maybe it was the same with a trance. She didn't know
what happened to them. Did they die? Or go mad? She just didn't want to take the
chance. So she moved across the room very quietly and sat beside her sister on
the bed.
There was a tiny tear in the wallpaper just opposite where Lucy was sitting.
Lucy said that was what she had to concentrate on to make the trance come. Only
she didn't call it a trance. She said she went to look at Fairyland.
June leant forward and stared at the tear in the paper. It was that kind of
lumpy paper called Anna something – Anna Galloper? The wall remained blank and
ordinary. June sat back a bit and refocussed. And there was something – just the
slightest suggestion of green - a pale shifting of green shadows, a bit like a
film being projected onto a screen. Fascinated, she concentrated harder. Then,
just as the shadows started to coalesce into a picture, the cat, Mitzy, shot
across the room and ran straight into the wall. Straight into the middle of what
had become a picture of a forest. And she ran into the shadows under the trees
and disappeared behind a trunk.
June gasped with shock.
"Mitzy!" Lucy stood up and ran after the cat, straight through - or was it into
- the wall. But the wall wasn't there anymore. A real live forest was standing
beyond the hole where the wall was supposed to be.
Shaking, June stood up, her hands outstretched like a blind man, feeling in
front of her for where the wall used to be. Then with an audible pop! the wall
reappeared, just at the ends of her fingers. She felt it smack against them as
it came back.
"Whoo!" June sat down again suddenly and stared at the wall. It was white and
blank and innocent again. She remained staring at the wall for a long time.

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