Crowe married a girl once who was a very powerful magician. She had heard tales of him leaving the woman he married, and she desperately wanted him to stay. She secretly laid a curse on him to make himnot be able to live without her, which is very powerful dark magic. He does leave her because she wants their children back and she forgets her comb. She fails the test because she didn't know she was being tested, and is still looking for her children in ghost form, unable to rest because of her spirit. Crowe is no longer himself, and desperately tries to get her curse lifted from him; thus partly why he kidnaps Angharad, for since she is in theory everyone in the nation, she can possibly also life the curse. Also Mab wants her.
Alfred’s sword is Durandal, from the Matter of France. I would’ve gone over my version of the legend in the story, but it seems a bit much here.
Back in present time, Alfred demands that Mab let them go. She demands he physically fight one of her knights, and Arthur quickly agrees for him, not knowing that Alfred’s super strength is gone. Not able to back out now, Alfred agrees to the agreement, on the condition that they have a battle of wits after.
Alfred ends up fighting and losing badly to Crowe. Since Alfred is still alive, simply too weak to move, the battle of wits begins. Since Crowe won the fight, he has first test. Crowe begins to try to pull his soul out of his body using his True Name. Alfred simply grins, lets him try and watches him fail, before he pulls out his final trump card: he doesn’t have one. A True Name, that is. Alfred gets on his soap box and does this long speech about how he doesn’t have a True Name, because he defines himself.
For Alfred’s test, he pulls out an apple from his bag, tosses it to Crowe, who looks at it, then hands it back. Alfred then takes out his knife and chops it in half. One of the halves is poisoned, he says. Crowe picks, they both eat, and Crowe dies as the apple from the tree that was infused with Alfred’s blood leeches all of the magic out of him.
Pandemonium ensues when Ginny leaps forward and cuts a lock of Crowe’s hair, the heather she needed to get to gain her soul. Now vulnerable, she is almost killed by the Unseelies, but Matthew saves her, and tells her to be happy with Arthur.
Then Lord Anwnn releases the Hell Hounds. Arthur gets the idea to channel magic into Alfred to open a gewind, and asks Alfred if he can do it, even if it will dull his soul slightly. Alfred doesn’t care, and Arthur does it, opening up a portal. The brothers tell them to go, as Alfred is now the one they want.
Alfred and Arthur do transportation spell after transportation spell, tearing them all over Britain. The last place they arrive is Stonehenge, and they meet up with the rest of them, as they had followed through. Surrounded, they are prepared to fight, when finally, Angharad wakes. She becomes aware of everything, and uses her power as the personification of Underhill to squash the actions of all the fae there, saving their skins.
There is a teary reunion, and then Angharad demands the diamond on Mab’s neck, and gives it to Arthur. It contains the stripped away superstrength. Angharad must stay in Underhill, and now that she is fully the personification, can seal the worlds away from each other forever. Although the Kirkland children are reluctant to let her do this after having only just gotten her again, they accept it after she spews a line about choosing their own destinies. Adain asks if he can stay, and if he could now be regular size again. Angharad agrees, but gives him a choice in size, as being miniature would probably help in the modern world. She gives Arthur the ability to open one more gewind, and tells him to use it well. And then she disappears, and the magic seeps back into the soil.
Crowe END/y
Alfred’s sword is Durandal, from the Matter of France. I would’ve gone over my version of the legend in the story, but it seems a bit much here.
Back in present time, Alfred demands that Mab let them go. She demands he physically fight one of her knights, and Arthur quickly agrees for him, not knowing that Alfred’s super strength is gone. Not able to back out now, Alfred agrees to the agreement, on the condition that they have a battle of wits after.
Alfred ends up fighting and losing badly to Crowe. Since Alfred is still alive, simply too weak to move, the battle of wits begins. Since Crowe won the fight, he has first test. Crowe begins to try to pull his soul out of his body using his True Name. Alfred simply grins, lets him try and watches him fail, before he pulls out his final trump card: he doesn’t have one. A True Name, that is. Alfred gets on his soap box and does this long speech about how he doesn’t have a True Name, because he defines himself.
For Alfred’s test, he pulls out an apple from his bag, tosses it to Crowe, who looks at it, then hands it back. Alfred then takes out his knife and chops it in half. One of the halves is poisoned, he says. Crowe picks, they both eat, and Crowe dies as the apple from the tree that was infused with Alfred’s blood leeches all of the magic out of him.
Pandemonium ensues when Ginny leaps forward and cuts a lock of Crowe’s hair, the heather she needed to get to gain her soul. Now vulnerable, she is almost killed by the Unseelies, but Matthew saves her, and tells her to be happy with Arthur.
Then Lord Anwnn releases the Hell Hounds. Arthur gets the idea to channel magic into Alfred to open a gewind, and asks Alfred if he can do it, even if it will dull his soul slightly. Alfred doesn’t care, and Arthur does it, opening up a portal. The brothers tell them to go, as Alfred is now the one they want.
Alfred and Arthur do transportation spell after transportation spell, tearing them all over Britain. The last place they arrive is Stonehenge, and they meet up with the rest of them, as they had followed through. Surrounded, they are prepared to fight, when finally, Angharad wakes. She becomes aware of everything, and uses her power as the personification of Underhill to squash the actions of all the fae there, saving their skins.
There is a teary reunion, and then Angharad demands the diamond on Mab’s neck, and gives it to Arthur. It contains the stripped away superstrength. Angharad must stay in Underhill, and now that she is fully the personification, can seal the worlds away from each other forever. Although the Kirkland children are reluctant to let her do this after having only just gotten her again, they accept it after she spews a line about choosing their own destinies. Adain asks if he can stay, and if he could now be regular size again. Angharad agrees, but gives him a choice in size, as being miniature would probably help in the modern world. She gives Arthur the ability to open one more gewind, and tells him to use it well. And then she disappears, and the magic seeps back into the soil.