Spring: Chapter Notes

Here you will find summaries of each chapter, pieced together carefully. Please do update as this will be heavily used as a reference for the Wiki.

## Part One: The Rider and Her Quest

### Chapter 1: The Rider and Her Quest

Characters -- **S:** Imbolc -- **B:** x -- **M:** Beornamund

* Waseley Hill; Englalond.
* Imbolc sits perched on the White Horse, her steed, as she thinks about the mysteries of the Universe. She dismounts on Waseley Hill, thinking of the prophecy of the Shield-Maiden.

### Chapter 2: Bedwyn Stort

Characters -- **S:** Bedwyn Stort -- **B:** Brief, Pike, Barklice -- **M:**

* (wip)

### Chapter 3: Pact

Characters -- **S:** Bedwyn Stort, Imbolc, Brief, Pike, Barklice -- **B:** x -- M: Beornamund

* Imbolc warns Bedwyn that someone was coming to Englalond, the "giant-born". Find him, and she promised to ask the Mirror-of-All to return his life to him (by the light of the rising sun). He accepts her task. He returns the years back to Imbolc as does she, he becoming younger, she, older.
* Imbolc claims that with the "giant-born" he would aid them to find the Shield-Maiden; Imbolc's sister.
* Brief and the others recollect the situation at hand, and noticed that white hair had grew upon Stort (a sign of innocence and ancient wisdom in youth). They promise to find the "giant-born" in a pact, before hiding from a nearby human: Arthur Foale.

### Chapter 4: Strange Site

Characters -- **S:** Arthur Foale, Margaret Foale -- **B:** x -- **M:** Beornamund

* Arthur examines the site nearby, and claims it was where Beornamund had worked his forge. Margaret his wife (over the phone) wasn't sure. Arthur explains he should stop excavating the site and find some other way to study it.

### Chapter 5: Giant-Born

Characters -- **S:** Yakob, Jack, the Modor, the Sita **-- B:** x -- **M:** (wip)

* In the uplands of Germany, three hydden of the Harz Mountains were confirming if "the boy" was the one. Of the three, the Ealdor, the leader of the village spoke for them. The Harz Mountain hydden were sworn enemies of the Sinistral, who dominated the Hyddenworld with their dark armies: the Fyrd.
* The Ealdor, confirmed he was Jack's grandfather as the Modor asked.
* The Modor promised to look after Jack, or "Yakob" as he was known at the time, only for long enough so he could fend for himself, and guise himself as a human in Englalond.

## Part Two: Fires of the Universe

### Chapter 6: The Call

Characters -- **S:** Arthur Foale, Margaret Foale

* In Berkshire, England - a phone rings, a month later, amongst the untidy house it was hard to find. The call had told Arthur, *"The boy is coming. He is ready now and he must come. It is too dangerous here. He comes. All is ready."* -- With that, the call dropped out and the phone died.

### Chapter 7: Into the World of Humans

Characters -- **S:** Jack

* In North Yorkshire Moors, the north-east of England, Jack was dropped off at the front door of a foster home in March. To them, Jack was certainly an oddity, his behaviours odd, but odder still, were his clothes and belongings.
* He was teased by an older boy of ten, taking away the soft toy and the teasing was met with aggression as Jack grabbed a folded TV magazine to fight with. The bullies were beaten by Jack, and quickly, a staff member assessed the situation while he retrieved his soft toy back, giving him name to the bullies. The aggression was bad enough to have one of the two bullies sent to a doctor, while the other laid down to catch his breath.
* Confused, the staff looked into Jack's past, if they even could, to find a number in Jack's bag, Arthur Foale's number.

### Chapter 8: On Borrowed Time

Characters -- **S:** Imbolc -- **M:** Beornamund

* Her steed, the White Horse, arrived with her, landing in a field in Warwickshire of Englalond. She was aware of the coming of Jack, and touching the last remaining gem on her pendant (Winter), which it turns out, it too, had vanished. She knew, she *had* to find the Shield Maiden.

### Chapter 9: Assignment

Characters -- **S:** Arthur Foale, Roger Lynas, Margaret Foale

* Arthur Foale's phone rang again; Roger Lynas was calling about Jack. First argument started, but then Margaret took over. Finding out the boy's name, and a promise that they'd be contacted frequently about the whole ordeal. Being given a number to call, and information that Jack would be sent to London for further assessment.
* Margaret was stressed, as talking about Jack had stirred something in her, as if Jack was her child. She had never been a mother, and she felt that something was happening, and Jack was linked with that something. Margaret explains that she feels like something awful might happen to Jack and that she felt this way because she could do nothing about it.

### Chapter 10: Master Brief and Friends

Characters -- **S:** Imbolc, Brief -- B: Pike, Bedwyn Stort

* As it rained in the heavy storm and wind, Imbolc walks with Brief, Pike and Bedwyn Stort, along with some stavermen hydden. She shapeshifts into her favourite guise: a middle-aged hydden pedlar from Ireland. Stort was leading the group, looking for something. They climb an escarpment, which she climbs too. They find an old railway line and an old platform where a station in the country once stood, though its buildings too, were all gone.
* None except Brief had known her true identity at the time.
* Imbolc tells him that she had travelled across Europe to find him, to warn him about the ongoing storm and that the particular storm would be the worst in living memory. Brief, however, was sceptical. As she tells the warning once again, she gives Brief a comb for his beard, more as gratitude that he had made it easy for her to join Brief's group, rather than caring about his appearance.
* She reveals she is looking for her successor: not a Peace-Weaver, but a Shield Maiden. Not only that, but that her successor could very well be human.
* They then begin to finally talk of Bedwyn Stort.

### Chapter 11: Storm Warning

Characters -- **S:** Jack

* In the waiting room of a health centre in Thirsk, Jack was sitting alone. Thirsk is a small market town in the Vale of York, and a few miles east of the motorway to London. Here, Jack was to be moved from his original foster care centre. A woman was yet to pick Jack up, though the storm slowed things down, and a nationwide alert on the television warned of the immense storm -- Jack wouldn't be leaving any time soon.

### Chapter 12: Prodigy

Characters -- **S:** Pike, Imbolc, Brief, Bedwyn Stort

* Imbolc, Brief and Pike all talk about Bedwyn Stort, and who he is, where he came from and how he once saved Pike's life from a quagmire.
* Bedwyn Stort recognises Imbolc, and she confirms her identity; thus it became all the more important to shelter from the heavy storm.

### Chapter 13: Decision

Characters -- **S:** Clare Shore, Katherine Shore, Jack, Richard Shore

* To the north, Clare stopped at the car park of the health centre in Thirsk to pick up her husband, Richard Shore. Both Clare and Katherine ran inside to avoid the downpour. Inside, Katherine meets Jack for the first time. Clare suggests to Richard that they take Jack to drop him off near Wembley, where his case worker was.
* Though shy, Katherine and Jack slowly become friends. Katherine also takes the white horse that Jack had placed away, which he seemed fine with.
* Richard, Clare, Katherine and Jack all hopped into a car, and began their journey.

### Chapter 14: Hail

Characters -- **S:** Richard Shore, Clare Shore, Katherine Shore, Jack

* Driving into the storm with thunder and lightning, the ride to London started as a bumpy one. Then, a storm of hail rained down on the car, which caused Richard to pull over. Things weren't looking good.

### Chapter 15: Standing Guard

Characters -- **S:** Brief, Imbolc, Bedwyn Stort, PIke

* Back with Brief, Stort and the others, they are weary with the storm overhead and then a scent... Fyrd, maybe. But oil seemed most prominent. Were the Fyrd spilling oil on the road?

### Chapter 16: Very Wyrd

Characters -- **S:** Richard Shore, Katherine Shore, Jack, Clare Shore

* The Shores' were on the journey still, with one stop to a service station. Concerned, Clare offered to drive for Richard, but he denied and they both continued the drive. As they neared Birmingham, the traffic slowed and soon traffic police were illuminated in their headlights. An officer told them that if they were heading south, they were to follow the diversion signs to lead them back onto the motorway.
* As the storm became a complete blur, the car had finally crashed.

### Chapter 17: Crash

Characters -- **S:** Pike, Bedwyn Stort, Brief -- **B:** Imbolc, Jack -- **M:** Beornamund

* The Fyrd were indeed spilling oil on the road, possibly in revenge against humans for the damage they have done to the world. There had in recent months been a spate of deliberate accidents with no regard for life, so that the Fyrd could raid the crashed cars for their contents.
* Stort thought that perhaps they could burn the oil away, though would be impossible in the storm.
* Then what should they find, but a vehicle heading their way on the bridge that Brief, Pike, Stort and the others were standing on. With a loud thud, the car crashed away ramming first into an oak tree, and then into one of the piers of the bridge, shaking the Hydden around, until the car came to a complete stop on the road below them. After the crash, a fire began to burn, that even the rain couldn't put it out as it was burning too strongly. The car then exploded.
* Imbolc claimed that the Shield Maiden was still inside the vehicle, and luckily, Clare, Katherine and Jack were all still alive -- Richard though, not so lucky.

### Chapter 18: Worried

Characters -- **S:** Roger Lynas, Margaret Foale -- **M:** Richard Shore, Jack, Arthur Foale

* Roger Lynas speaks with Margaret Foale regarding where Jack was, and of course, Roger had no idea as the storm was to blame; thus the Shores' couldn't answer the phone calls...

### Chapter 19: Flames

Characters -- **S:** Richard Shore, Clare Shore, Katherine Shore, Bedwyn Stort

* Richard awakens from unconsciousness, to find his car had been absolutely wrecked, the car roof was gone and a fire was still burning around the car. Looking around, he saw his wife had been struggling with a stuck seat-belt while Katherine was sitting in the back of the car, in shock. Jack had disappeared.
* Richard then helps aid Clare from her seat, shoving her through the opening where the door was.
* Reappearing, Jack tries to free Katherine from her seat, who was now awake and very, very afraid. Richard then dies, overcome by the fire. Jack managed to free Katherine, and fleeing away from the car, Jack again fell into unconsciousness.
* The Fyrd appeared before Katherine, and as they tried to take Jack, Katherine refused.
* Bedwyn Stort arrived at the scene, falling down the embankment from the bridge to reach them.

### Chapter 20: From the Edge of the Universe

Characters -- **S:** Pike, Bedwyn Stort, Brief, Imbolc, Brunte, Lavin Sinistral -- **B:** Katherine, Jack

* Pike stood to protect his group from the Fyrd: Brunte and Lavin Sinistral (the third unknown). Lavin had spoken that they were ordered to detain Jack, and announced that he was the newly appointed Quentor of Brum. He threatened Brief that if he got in the way between him and Jack, he would be punished.
* Firing an arrow at the group, the White Horse appeared, taking the arrow which broke into pieces like glass. The Peace-Weaver interrupted the battle, and both sides, Lavin and Brief, fled away.

### Chapter 21: Treachery

Characters -- **S:** Igor Brunte, Lavin Sinistral

* Here we learn a bit about Brunte's past, and how he came to be a murderer.
* Brunte kills the Quentor, Lavin Sinistral, with his two knives and then set forth to Brum.

### Chapter 22: Healing

Characters -- **S:** Imbolc, Brief, Jack, Pike, Stort -- **B:** Clare Shore, Katherine Shore -- **M:** Richard Shore

* Brief examines Jack, his clothes burned; they apply bin-bags filled with hail to the burns of Jack and Clare Shore. Katherine sits by Jack to reassure him.
* The group of hydden foresee that Katherine is the Shield-Maiden from a slice in the sky (The Fires of the Universe), hovering over her in showing fire and the stars.
* An ambulance is called; Brief and the others go into hiding. The vehicle arrives along with a police car and a second ambulance. Katherine is placed in the same ambulance as her mother, while Jack is placed in the second. The body of Richard Shore was removed.
* Brief prays for them all as he points his staff in the sky, including Richard and the group of hydden he was with. Brief as well, proposes that nobody should know about what they all had witnessed that night. They then turn to begin their journey back to Brum.
* Stort slips away again, and finds what Jack had left behind: his rucksack. Pike takes it and states that it was empty. Brief folds it and places it into his own bag.

### Chapter 23: Aftermath

Characters -- **S:** Margaret Foale, Arthur Foale -- **B:** Roger Lynas -- **M:** Jack, Katherine Shore,

* Margaret Foale speaks to Roger Lynas via telephone, about Jack and how his burns were deep and severe - that it was astonishing that he had lived at all. Then, Roger speaks about Katherine, and again about Jack's stay at the Birmingham hospital regarding his burns.
* Clare had made a bond with Margaret and Arthur quickly, to Margaret's warmth and to Arthur's good humour.
* Regarding Katherine's future, Roger Lynas invited the Foales' to a meeting. Arthur agreed.
* The meeting began at Northfield General Hospital in a conference room, where Katherine was looked after. Jack was sent to a specialist burns unit in London. The question had come up however, if Arthur could look after Katherine and Jack as a guardian.
* Katherine was sitting by her mother's bed, clutching onto a white horse soft toy; the very same that Jack had given her. The question had been fulfilled; Arthur and Margaret were now Katherine's guardians.
* They take Katherine to Waseley Hill with Clare's approval.
* Clare is left with Margaret, to who she almost reveals the sightings of the hydden, but decides not to.

## Part Three: Ten Years Later

### Chapter 24: The Call

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Katherine -- **M:** -- Arthur Foale, Margaret Foale, Clare Shore, Richard Shore, Roger Lynas

* Katherine calls Jack, regarding Clare, who had been chronically incapacitated since the car accident. She, however, had come to see Jack in the hospital afterwards, since then however there had only been regular cards at Christmas and on his birthday. Katherine tells Jack that she was near the end now, and she wanted to see him. Jack wasn't so keen on the idea.
* Fact: Clare and Katherine were now sharing the Foales' huge house in Berkshire.
* Flashback to Jack in hospital; he at eleven and Katherine at ten. Jack complains, that if it hadn't been for Katherine's parents picking him up, his incident may never have happened... however he can handly get the words out. She was going to speak back, but didn't finish the sentence.
* Returning to the present, Katherine also states that Arthur had disappeared, and she needed someone to talk to. Jack says that he would also see Clare.

### Chapter 25: Talk

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Katherine -- **M:** Margaret Foale

* Katherine and Jack become friends again, talking about recent events. Even though he didn't say it, Katherine had been on his mind for months. They talk about the White Horse Hill, near the place that she was staying at, and in his thoughts, Jack loved the postcard of it that she had sent of him.

### Chapter 26: Room With a View

Characters -- **S:** Katherine, Samantha, Jack, Clare, Margaret Foale -- **M:** Arthur Foale,

* Katherine sits at her window in the Woolstone House, looking at the escarpment of White Horse Hill. She talks to Samantha, her friend, about her feelings for Jack, which she was happy about.
* We learn about Katherine's adolescence and her ties with her friend Sam.
* The day that Jack would visit the Woolstone House had come. Katherine sets up Jack's room, and Clare is upset that Katherine hadn't found the time to talk to her properly.

### Chapter 27: White Horse

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Katherine -- **M:** Clare, Margaret Foale

* Jack sees the White Horse running around in the field of Berkshire.
* As he left London, Jack arrived at Woolstone and met Katherine again for the first time in years. They kept their feelings to themselves. Katherine led Jack into the house, and before she took him in to see Clare, she warns him about how she had changed; how she would 'see things'.

### Chapter 28: Clare

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Clare, Katherine

* Jack sees Clare after seeing the garden; Jack was stunned as he never had been around a dying person before. She thanked him for coming and talks in her wild, delusional matter, or rather, in her way of the hydden. She touches Jack and his scars, fascinated by him. Katherine butted in however and whispered that her mother would sleep now, as she stayed awake just to see him.
* Jack looks out at the White Horse on the Hill, then back to Clare who he promised he'd look after her always. Katherine says that she'd look after him, though mouthed to Clare so Jack couldn't hear her.

### Chapter 29: House

Characters -- **S:** Katherine, Jack, Margaret, Clare -- **M:** Arthur

* Katherine shows Jack around the house, and to the guest's room. Jack unpacks as Katherine leaves. Soon enough, Jack falls asleep and has a nightmare; him on his back in the dark burning, young Katherine standing and staring at him, the hydden man coming to cool his burns and then -- the gong awoke him.
* Awakened, he sees Katherine's offering of flowers near his bed. He sees Katherine at his door, and she takes him down for mealtime. Tending to Clare, she sits and converses with Jack, catching up from all the years behind them.
* Margaret returns by cab, checking on Clare and commenting that she looked better. Clare asks if Margaret could feel the difference in the house. Agreeing, she wished that Arthur too was here. It had been three months since Arthur's disappearance. Clare moves the conversation by talking about Jack's arrival instead.

### Chapter 30: First Steps of the Dance

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Katherine Shore, Margaret Foale -- **M:** Arthur Foale, Sam, Richard Shore, Clare Shore

* Jack awoke to the sound of piano playing, then fell asleep again. Awaking a second time, he got up and walked into the bathroom and then downstairs into the dining room where breakfast awaited him. Katherine appears, greeting him. They wash the dishes together and then Jack is shown the house en tour with Katherine (here we learn a bit on the house).
* They visit the piano room, and on into a library, where they see two desks; one tidy desk belonging to Margaret, and one messy desk belonging to Arthur. Jack and Katherine discuss Arthur's three-month-old disappearance.
* Katherine reveals that even though Clare asked to see Jack, Katherine too wanted to see him.
* While observing the library, Jack and Katherine then go to the gardens; Jack changes his shoes here. He sees an old vegetable garden. Margaret appears, and the two converse briefly, with Arthur's disappearance as one of the subjects.

### Chapter 31: Into the Garden

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Katherine Shore, Margaret Foale -- **M:** Arthur Foale

* Jack searches for Katherine in the gardens, until she eventually finds him and joins him in sitting down.
* Katherine liked to have her space, Jack figures out. However, they converse the following morning; Katherine talks about her favourite book, The Secret Garden; this leads to another scene where they all watch the film adaption together, where Jack and Katherine share their opinions on it.
* Horwood talks about their relationship growing and weaning, as Katherine is rather two-sided, being happy one minute and bitter the next. They both continue to keep their feelings for each other hidden.
* They had exams start around the end of May; Katherine locked herself away in her bedroom, only coming out for certain occasions, while Jack went out to the gardens and wrote notes on cards. During his stays out in the garden, Jack gets the feeling of being watched. He thinks about how the situation felt 'familiar', and Katherine catches him from her window as Jack stared at the conifer.
* Spring changes to Summer. Jack and Katherine go for a walk; she talks about her knowledge of flowers, and again about Arthur.
* One day they walk to the River Thames; Katherine talks about it, how one offers something to a river in order to cross it peacefully, like coins or swords. They walk to a bridge, and Jack seems to have deja vu. Katherine wanted to know why, but Jack refuses to tell her, saying he has no past. He tries to explain to her the recent feelings of his past, with effort; the chimes, the dark shadowy people, the mirroring fragments...
* They talk more about the chimes, and how the 'little people' might be adding new ones. Jack talks about how he feels there are hidden pathways he feels when on their walks.
* They finally honour the river with two fifty-pence pieces at the Old Man's Bridge.

### Chapter 32: Revelation

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Margaret Foale, Clare Shore, Katherine Shore -- **B:** Arthur Foale (on a tape)

* Jack and Margaret sit by Clare's bed to talk about Arthur, Katherine, and Jack himself. First, Margaret starts with Arthur by showing a photo of him. Jack says that they shouldn't keep all of this from Katherine, and Clare retorts, saying 'she was just a girl' but was cut off with Jack repeating the words ironically. Thus they decide to collect Katherine to have her in on it too.
* They speak about it all; the journeys, and of course Arthur's disappearance, which began as Margaret handing Jack a computer disk which on it, had a video. They all watch it together.
* It began with Arthur filming himself, and then talking; about Jack's past, of the Hyddenworld, the unveiling of the Hydden on film, Jack's genetic crossover, and then the film ends. It all confirms that Arthur's disappearance was to do with the Hyddenworld.
* Jack went to his room, shocked yet relieved that he knew something of his background. Jack later falls into sleep and consciousness in a fragmented way, until he decides to wake up at dawn, the sky a red colour. For the time being, all Jack could do was watch and wait.

### Chapter 33: Ridgeway

Characters -- **S:** Katherine Shore, Jack -- **M:** Arthur Foale, Margaret Foale, Clare Shore

* Jack and Katherine's daily walks became faster, longer and more vigorous. They decide to visit the chalk escarpment to the north of Woolstone, and the Downs beyond. The didn't visit the Horse this time. They talk together as they walk among the landscape.
* Katherine tries to make a move, and suggests they both go to Avebury tomorrow to see the stone circles. She mentions Jack's burns, and Jack doesn't like it; "It'll always matter," he says. Katherine apologises and they walk home in silence. They didn't go to Avebury the following day, as Clare was coming to her end.

### Chapter 34: Eye of the Horse

Characters -- **S:** Margaret Foale, Katherine Shore, Jack, Clare Shore, Imbolc -- **M:** Arthur Foale

* The doctor comes to visit Clare, claiming she was as weak as ever. Margaret says she was expected to live until tomorrow or the following day. Katherine burst into tears and cried into Jack's shoulder.
* Clare asks for Jack to talk to her, just between him and her. Katherine and Margaret leave the room. Her last request for him was to climb White Horse Hill, and for him to protect Katherine.
* After lunch, Jack sets off to White Horse Hill and walks to the very eye, while it was raining. There, he meets Imbolc where she introduces herself, and begins to talk of how she had been living on borrowed time and that what she needed to say must be said now.

### Chapter 35: Going Home

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Margaret Foale, Katherine Shore, Clare Shore -- **M:** Richard Shore, Arthur Foale

* Clare asked for Jack while he was away, but Katherine told her he couldn't come to her, as he was climbing the hill, as Clare had asked. She wanted to thank him again for saving Katherine's life as a child and to say to him that he's ready now, and Katherine was too. Last, she said that the hydden were coming to show them, but show them what, she couldn't say.
* She tells Katherine that Jack does indeed love her, and to never doubt the fact. After, she passes on.

### Chapter 36: Warning

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Imbolc -- **M:** Katherine Shore, Arthur Foale, Bedwyn Stort, Clare Shore, Bedwyn Stort

* Jack was talking with Imbolc; of her name, of her guise, of Arthur Foale, and of Clare's passing. Imbolc also tells him that he must look after Katherine while she is grieving, as she'd be vulnerable. She also talks of Bedwyn, of Brum, of the Sinistral, and of course, the crash being deliberate. That the crash was caused by the Fyrd, who were trying to kill Jack himself.
* The conifers surrounding Woolstone in a circular shape are revealed to be a henge that Arthur created himself many years ago and, that the hydden created many of the henges as portals to the Hyddenworld. Last, Imbolc tells Jack that Arthur was seeking Spring, or rather, the gemstone of Spring.
* A thunderstorm began as Imbolc had disappeared.

### Chapter 37: Out of the Dark

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Katherine Shore -- **M:** Imbolc, Clare Shore, Margaret Foale, Arthur Foale

* Jack realised Imbolc was right; both Katherine and Margaret were struck by grief. Katherine especially; her moods changed violently and frequently. Clare was to be cremated in Oxford, and her funeral was to be held in eight days' time.
* She would yell at Jack, telling him to go back where he came from, and that he 'wasn't wanted there'.
* However, she came to her senses and asked Jack if they could have a bonfire in celebration of her mother's life. Jack agreed.
* Jack would find time for himself out in the garden, either on his back or sitting cross-legged in a meditive stance. He listened to a lot of the nature around him, though he was sure that the hydden might be watching him.

### Chapter 38: In the Library

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Margaret Foale, Katherine Shore -- **M:** Clare Shore

* It was midnight; Jack couldn't sleep. He sees Margaret couldn't sleep either, and she told him she'd be in the library. Making a hot chocolate, Katherine was attracted by the scent and came downstairs. They both joined Margaret in the library.
* Katherine suggests the bonfire. Jack walks around the room and studied it, Arthur's desk and chair; he sits in the chair. Jack sees the rooms is two halves; one for Arthur and one for Margaret. Out of curiousity, Jack asks Margaret what she works as. She tells him she was working on a text which scholars call the *Codex Exoniensis*. She also recites a poem in Old English called The Ruin and then Arthur's opinion on it. She also speaks of Beornamund and of Brum.
* Jack bursts out asking if Arthur went to the Hyddenworld of Birminham, and Margaret claims she didn't know. They talk about the holiday they planned to Northumberland to calm down.

### Chapter 39: Farewell

Characters -- **S:** Katherine Shore, Jack, Margaret Foale -- **M:** Clare Shore, Richard Shore

* Clare's funeral; it was raining and then the sun came out as Katherine spoke about her memories with her mother. Jack then guided her back to her seat after her small speech.
* For the bonfire, Jack did most of the work, gathering things to burn not just as fire source but of things that were no longer needed.

### Chapter 40: On Waseley Hill

Characters -- **S:** Margaret Foale, Katherine Shore, Jack -- **M:** Arthur Foale

* Three days before the bonfire, Margaret suggests going to Waseley Hill with Jack and Katherine, where Beornamund was supposed to live. They all agree on the drive, and Margaret takes them there.
* They talk about Beornamund, of an old site Arthur was examining, and of spring and its gem. Jack thinks about his conversation with Imbolc. They then decide to leave.

### Chapter 41: Old Scars

Characters -- **S:** Katherine, Jack, Margaret Foale -- **M:** Richard Shore, Clare Shore, Arthur Foale,

* The bonfire was nearly finished as Jack and Katherine lay talking, about Clare and Richard, about the fire, etc. They say they will light the bonfire tomorrow night. They say they value each other's safety, in way of saying they do indeed have feelings for each other.
* Next morning; they go to the conservatory in the house and Jack could feel the bad spirits hovering. He claims that they had to leave the house, that it was no longer safe for them. They were to go to Northumberland - away from it all.
* Katherine makes a move, and they share their first kiss.

### Chapter 42: Shadows

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Margaret Foale -- **M:** Katherine Shore, Arthur Foale

* Katherine and Margaret gather old jam jars with nightlights in them, which they lit at seven. At eight, they had supper which was thick parsnip soup and homemade bread.
* At nine, Jack and Margaret went outside to the bonfire. Jack examined the henges with his torch, at the shadows and sounds in the night. They part, and Jack, feeling uneasy, goes back inside.

### Chapter 43: Bonfire

Characters -- **S:** Katherine Shore**,** Margaret Foale, Jack-- **M:** Arthur Foale

* They set the bonfire alight at eleven. Margaret places food in memory of Arthur, and the fire burned hot. Katherine fetches her mother's urn with Clare's ashes through the candlelit path back to the bonfire. Taking the ashes, she places them in the fire. They say their goodbyes for Clare.
* Midnight strikes; Margaret prays for Arthur's safe return. They talk together, sharing memories. Margaret eventually goes back inside while Jack and Katherine stay outside.
* The spirits were awakened and energy around them frightened Katherine especially. Jack goes to investigate the sound.

### Chapter 44: Lost

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Katherine Shore -- **M:** Margaret Foale

* As Jack left, shadows had circled around Katherine and the warmth was changed to shivering cold. Trying to escape them, she bumped into a tree as she fled the embers of the bonfire. She couldn't call out to Jack and the spirits were pulling at her, making it so she couldn't move.
* The shadows took to Jack as well, and the smell of the bonfire led him into the right direction. Katherine called out, and Jack called out to her. No response.
* At the bonfire, he called to her again and again, trying to find her. She was there; Jack could feel her presence, but she was... invisible. The shadows continued to encircle him. He made his way to the house, seeing Margaret in the library, and then darted back outside. Margaret called to them both, but neither replied.
* Jack makes it back to the bonfire. The shadows still mess about, and Katherine again called out, weakly. Katherine had been taken into the Hyddenworld.

## Part Four: Into the Hyddenworld

### Chapter 45: Into the Henge

Characters -- **S:** Katherine, Jack

* Katherine is pulled into the henge, calling out for Jack to help her. The shadows had captured her and Katherine decided she wanted to leave Jack there, but he persisted on trying to rescue her.

### Chapter 46: Sinister

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Katherine, Brief -- **M:** Clare Shore, Imbolc

* Jack saw the shadows, the Fyrd, pulling and weaving across the henge, knowing that he had lost Katherine. He was given a staff in the darkness by Brief to ward off the Fyrd. The light of the moon glinted over the staff and as he tried to ward off the Fyrd, the light backfired and he gave the staff back to Brief, who stood in between Katherine's captors and Jack.

### Chapter 47: Departure

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Brief, Messrs Pike, Bedwyn Stort -- **M:** Arthur Foale, Katherine Shore

* Jack met the group of Hydden formally with names, though he was very confused meeting them. Feeling very dizzy however, he fainted and the group caught him.
* Waking up, Jack cried about Katherine, but Pike had explained to him that he had saved her life regardless. Brief explained that he would be safe with them and as well that they had to move away from where they were. Giving Jack a drink of hot mead with additional 'substances', it would help energise him for the time being.

### Chapter 48: Captive

Characters -- **S:** Katherine Shore, Streik, Mayor Feld -- **M:** Igor Brunte, Messrs Pike, Brief

* The Fyrd led Katherine out of the henge, past the house and onto the road. Four of them, in their uniforms of trews and tunics with gathered sleeves made of a heavy fabric that shimmered in blacks and greys. They were also armed with dirks, crossbows and staves. Streik, one of them, held on to Katherine. Streik spoke that they ought to have taken Jack as well, but Mayor Feld, wasn't so sure. They spoke of their plan to persistently attack Jack and the others, but not kill them.
* They speak of Pike, Brief, of Jack's power with and without the staff. Then, as Katherine woke, Feld ordered his group to change her into the garments they had brought for her. The gave her a uniform just like their own, and pinned up her hair with a metal clasp. They abandoned her other clothes in a hedge.
* Katherine tried to wake, and sought help near the road, but the efforts were useless as she and the others could not be seen. They walked along the fields near the railway lines between Swindon and Didcot. As they walked on to the line, Katherine woke, and dared ask who Feld was. They retorted back angrily.
* Katherine finally knew she was now smaller, as everything seemed bigger. She was in the Hyddenworld! She spoke up, asking where they were taking her, and they would reply, "Brum", or Birmingham. The Fyrd would take her and the rest there by train. As they boarded, she fell asleep again.

### Chapter 49: Camp

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Brief, Pike -- **M:** Katherine, Imbolc, Bedwyn Stort

* Jack wakes to the sound of a car, lying on the ground with a plaid blanket over him. He thinks briefly of Katherine and tried to recollect what had happened to him. He sees Brief and Pike sitting by a fire, eating and drinking. Pike mentions that they had no time to waste waiting for Jack to wake up as the Fyrd were following them.
* Jack realises too that the world had indeed grown, or he shrunk? He then saw four Fyrd, armed with staves, crossbows and knives.

### Chapter 50: Fight and Flight

Characters -- **S:** Jack, Pike, Brief -- **M:** Bedwyn Stort, Imbolc, Igor Brunte, Clare Shore, Arthur Foale

* Jack and Pike made the first move and battled two of the four Fyrd with wooden staves.
* Moments later, two of the Fyrd were defeated, while Jack and Pike struggled with the remaining two until they fell to the ground. Pike praised Jack's battle skills.
* Brief suggested to make another brew and get food for Jack. They tuckered in and talked about the journey they had to make, along with Bedwyn Stort, Jack's origins and homeland (the Harz Mountains), the Hyddenworld, Katherine, and what Jack must do to prove himself, as a leader against the power of the Sinistral and their Fyrd army. They also talk about Modor and Wita, the Wise Ones who took Jack in and summoned the Peace-Weaver to take over, which leads into talking about the Peace-Weaver, and then, Igor Brunte.
* Brief also reveals to Jack that Katherine (who he thinks is the Shield Maiden) had been captured by Igor Brunte in hopes that Jack would follow, and with her too, that their first task would be to find the missing Spring gem. Jack compains that he can do little at all and only came to find Katherine and Arthur Foale, the latter Brief and Pike hadn't heard of (which was a lie). As such, Jack tells them that if they helped him find Arthur, he would help them with their revolution.
* Brief tells Jack that the first move would be made very soon.They left Jack to eat while they packed up camp and removing evidence of their prescence.
* Jack asks where Stort is, and Brief told him he was ahead, meeting Mister Barklice, whose help they'd need. They then left for Brum.

### Chapter 51: Arrival

Characters -- **S:** Katherine, Streik, Mayor Feld -- **M:** Jack

* As rainy clouds hovered over in the mid-afternoon, Katherine awoke in the wagon of a freight train, which after some points, had come to a stop. They dropped to the tracks below, with Katherine inclined to follow Mayor Feld and Streik. Humans were out with their umbrellas as it began to rain. They had arrived at the East Gate of Brum. Katherine felt an urge to run to the humans above them, but Feld reminded her, "They can't see you and they can't hear you, because they have lost the habit of looking."
* Katherine tried nonetheless, calling out, "I'm here, I'm Katherine Shore!" She continued until she was hoarse and weak. Streik took her hand and brought her back to the group.
* Strange creatures welcomed them into Brum.

### Chapter 52: By the Devil's Quoits

Characters -- **S:** Bedwyn Stort, Barklice -- **M:** Brief

* Bedwyn Stort was holding forth about the Devil's Quoits, a half-forgotten henge in Oxfordshire. The henge looked useless, but Stort wasn't sure. He theorised the name of the henge, and how it could have told the time, brought people together, been used for executing criminals and in former times, for humans and hydden to travel between each other's worlds.
* Barklice told Stort that this was where Brief wanted them all to meet and that he'd make a brew while they waited for them. As they do, they talk of wyfkin and of love as some bachelors do.

### Chapter 53: Into the City

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### Chapter 54: Unobtainable

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### Chapter 55: Crossing

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### Chapter 56: Epiphany

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### Chapter 57: Nightmare

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### Chapter 58: Departure

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### Chapter 59: Sisters Chaste

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### Chapter 60: Resurrection

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### Chapter 61: Hais

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### Chapter 62: At the West Gate

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## Part Five: Brum

### Chapter 63: Old and New

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### Chapter 64: Lord Festoon

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### Chapter 65: Jiggered

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### Chapter 66: Brunte

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### Chapter 67: The Hands of Modor

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### Chapter 68: Caught Again

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### Chapter 69: Make It Plain

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### Chapter 70: Party Time

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### Chapter 71: Admonishment

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### Chapter 72: Party Over

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### Chapter 73: The Cunning Knot

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### Chapter 74: Reunion

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### Chapter 75: Massacre

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### Chapter 76: The Marshal

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### Chapter 77: The Chamber of Seasons

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### Chapter 78: Doors

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### Chapter 79: Flight

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## Part Six: Spring

### Chapter 80: The Village

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### Chapter 81: Illness

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### Chapter 82: Regimen

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### Chapter 83: Scrumpet

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### Chapter 84: Healing

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### Chapter 85: Farewell

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## Part Seven: Shield Maiden

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### Chapter 87: Discovery

Characters -- **S:** Bedwyn Stort, Imbolc, Beornamund -- **M:** Brief

* At night in the rain, Bedwyn Stort stood at Waseley Hill. He theorises about the Shield-Maiden's birth-time, the last night of Spring. Stort thinks that the lost gem had to be where that fragment of the Sphere was originally lost, where the CraftLord's workshop had once been. He braces himself for the oncoming storm.
* Imbolc appears in her last moments with no guise, appearing as old as the Earth and Universe itself. She told him to stand by her, and that he'd be safe if he did so. She told him she needed his help to find the gem.
* He finds it, and Beornamund comes to tell him he'd earned the right to hold on to it until the Shield Maiden needed it. To keep it secret. He agrees and then Beornamund and Imbolc disappear.

### Chapter 88: The Season Turns

Characters -- **S:** Margaret Foale, Arthur Foale, Jack -- **B:** Katherine, Judith -- **M:** Brunte, Lord Festoon, Clare

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