Their fifth-floor position may have been awkward for toting luggage, but it did provide a glorious aspect of the city. The room faced the apartments opposite, but their building was taller so that Aubrey had a clear view south toward the river. Between the river and his vantage point, he could ma...
It didn’t matter if it were by train, boat or horse and cart, he loved the anticipation of arriving in a different place. The perspectives that were granted a traveller were special and changing, always being glimpsed and left behind, with something new just ahead. Aubrey had one substantial regr...
The outside world had not entered the castle, even in rooms where the shutters had been left open, exposing them to the elements. No birds had built nests, no leaves had been blown in. All was quiet and solemn. The dust was the only sign that the castle had not been built yesterday. Ballrooms and...
Simangee, Targesh and he stretched out around a campfire in the thick woods on the south bank of the Dondor River, the border between Chulnagh and Shuff. Adalon ached all over and it felt good to have the armour off. He had sharp twinges in his thighs and the base of his tail. He grimaced as he l...
She swept them through the Central Circle and along the Algerian Avenue, emerging through the Wood Lane entrance. Queues of people waiting to get into the Exhibition, in orderly British fashion, stretched up the road. The stands of the stadium loomed not far to the south and cheers cascaded over ...
The base was finalised – Aubrey having abandoned his improvements to the guardian spells around the perimeter – stores were laid in, antennae were tuned, and George had even livened up the basement with a coat of paint, declaring that buttercup yellow always made a place more welcoming. Another m...
As was their usual arrangement, George was going to stay with the Fitzwilliams for the first part of the mid-year holidays, but Aubrey saw little of him in that hectic final week of term. George was busy with cornet practice for the mid-year concert, and study, for once, had also kept his head do...
HE'D GROWN TOO accustomed to the renegade's mercurial behaviour to be surprised at his appearance, but his casual demeanour made Aubrey extremely wary. Dr Tremaine shook his head, as if Aubrey was a slow student. 'I was afraid you'd missed the implications of my little plan entirely. Luckily, you...
For the rest of the day, Adalon, Targesh and Simangee watched over their old tutor as he lay there on his bed, gripped by a nightmare that would not let go. Hours went by as the old tutor mumbled and shivered, his eyes screwed tightly shut. At one stage in that long afternoon, Moralon came by and...