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IRELAND

August 1983-March 1984

Summer and Autumn

I want to learn about us looked at her Faded jeans, T-shirt, the challenging look adopted by all shy people precisely when it's least needed "I ht And despite this, he knew that he had met his Soul Mate

"My natiht I would be"

"Why do you want to learn about ic?" he asked

"So that I can find answers to so life, so that I can learn about the occult powers, and, possibly, how to travel back into the past and forward into the future"

It wasn't the first time someone had come to the forest to ask him this There was a time when he'd been a Teacher as known and respected by the Tradition He'd taken on several pupils and believed that the world would change if he could change those around him But he had made a mistake And Teachers of the Tradition cannot make mistakes

"Don't you think you're rather young?"

"I' ballet, I'd be considered too old"

The Magus ether through the forest, in silence "She's pretty," he was thinking as the shadows cast by the trees rapidly lengthened and shifted as the sun sank lower on the horizon "But I'ht well suffer

Brida felt irritated by the silence of the ned to respond to her last remark The forest floor et and covered in fallen leaves; she, too, noticed the shadows changing and the rapid approach of night It would be dark soon and they didn't have a flashlight with them

"I have to trust hiic, then I also have to believe that he can guide h the forest"