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inside her, I don't think; I'm no good at getting my head around the
physics of this.

    Naturally, Dian Cecht refused to help her further. The Tuatha De Danann
had a problem in dealing with anything corrupted by the Fomorii, and here was
the corruption to end them all. So they threw us out, consigning Ruth to the
worst fate of all. She took it well, under the circumstances, but it wouldn't be
wrong to say we were all devastated. The others thought they'd done their bit
to stop Balor being reborn, and all along they were doing the things that would
make it actually happen. And there was the ultimate moral dilemma: could
Church kill Ruth to prevent Balor from coming back into the world, even
knowing she would die when the birth happened anyway?
    On the way back from Richmond we encountered the terrifying Fomorii
warrior Witch had first seen beneath Edinburgh Castle. It was like a tank, enormous, unstoppable, ploughing through cars at a phenomenal speed. We escaped
-just. The Fomorii had obviously unleashed it to retrieve Balor. That was the
one bright spot for the companions, that the Fomorii must have been tearing
themselves apart to know their supreme god was now in the hands of the enemy.
    Meanwhile, Veitch, Shavi, and Laura continued to investigate the deaths in
the village. It was Veitch who made the big discovery: the doors of the latest victims had been forced open, allowing the predators in. The trail led back to some
of our supposedly friendly village's more well-heeled residents. They'd been sacrificing those they considered undesirable by breaking open their houses so the
creatures could get in, leaving the rich free to carry on with their lives and businesses. Witch dragged off the ringleader for summary punishment, much to the
concern of Shavi and Laura.
    I waved goodbye to them that day, not quite realizing how much they'd
changed my life. For the first time I'd seen some hope in a world that had gone mad. Right then we desperately needed heroes, and I was determined to tell
everyone who they were. That was my calling in life.

    They continued south along the Pennines, with no idea what they were supposed to be doing anymore. Meanwhile, Ruth was growing sicker and sicker.
Finally they sent out two missions to seek help for Ruth: one to Cernunnos and
one to the Queen responsible for Tom's suffering. Church and Laura would stay
to guard Ruth at Mam Tor in the Peaks, a place saturated in the earth energy
which would blind the searching Fomorii to their presence.
    Shavi went south towards Windsor Park where Cernunnos could be summoned, eventually hooking up with a group of travellers. But he woke one
morning to find a woman murdered, her finger missing. Whatever had been
pursuing them since Loch Maree was now after him alone.
    Tom and Veitch headed north, through several adventures, including an
encounter with a race of manwolves, the Lupinari, and the discovery that the
Tuatha De Danann nature gods were reforesting the land. Finally they arrived at
Inverness, where they were taken by the Queen's guard to the Court of the
Yearning Heart.
    The Queen proved an expert at manipulation. She focused her attention on
Witch, but Tom had already warned him to obey the rules of T'ir n'a n'Og: not
to eat or drink anything there or he would become a prisoner of the Queen forever. She agreed to help if Veitch undertook one mission for her: to kill or capture the Questing Beast, a mysterious but fierce primaeval creature that had
escaped from the Court into our world.
    Witch hunted the creature down, but he was almost killed in the process. As
he was close to death, the Queen tended to his wounds, eventually tricking him
into drinking a single droplet of water. He was forced to remain there, with the
threat of undergoing the same terrible experiments that had so traumatized Tom.
    On Mam Tor, Church, Ruth, and Laura discovered a deserted cottage where
they could hide out. On one wall there was a