The Last Days Of The Edge Of The World - Plot & Excerpts
It was as he thought. The bed had not been slept in.“Oh, dear,” he said, aloud. “Oh, dear. Where….”He crossed the room to the dressing table, looking around for some evidence of where Helen might have gone, or why. Everything was neat and orderly, and quite unhelpful. He was about to turn round and go out again when he saw that the top left-hand drawer was not quite closed. Although this did not seem particularly odd or significant he reached out and opened it a little further.Inside, there was an envelope. It had been opened, but the letter had been shoved back inside. He recognized it as the letter which had come from the palace a few days before—the letter containing Prince Damian’s first question. The enchanter took the folded sheet of paper out of the envelope, and opened it. My dearest Helen, he read.The words written upon the stone beneath the signpost at the heart of Methwold forest were:TURN THE SIGNPOST ROUND.Then he skipped to: on Faulhom’s horn… in Mirasol’s haunted banquet hall? He didn’t bother with the rest.“Mirasol?”
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