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“but... please bring the news to them with care,” she said.
“It’s still dangerous there, especially if the Master is hiding
somewhere. He’s probably out for revenge.”
    “ ...Dad?” Luke said.
“What are you talking about?”
    There were similar looks coming
from the others. No one knew about Lunaria, so no one knew what
Anna and James were talking about, either.
    James and Anna exchanged worried
and insecure looks, before James finally decided to tell the five
teenagers in front of them what they’d got themselves
into.
    “ Well... this might
sound weird,” James said, “but twenty-five years ago, my friends
and I were taken to a magical world because we read that same book
as you.”
    Looks were exchanged
on the teenagers’ side. Were they believing James’s story, or were
they thinking he was crazy? The book had blasted them
against the wall, after all. Not sure how they’d explain that other
than ‘magic’.
    “ We defeated the evil
forces that controlled that world,” James said, “although don’t ask
me how we did it, because I still don’t know. But... that evil
force is back, and we’ve got to fix it.”
    “ What about us?”
Felicity said, nervously running her fingers through her dark
blonde hair.
    “ Yeah,” Tony said, rubbing the puffy skin underneath his
eyes. “Do we need to come along, or are we safe? I mean – we did touch the book...”
    James swallowed
loudly. “About that,” he said. “Yes. You will have to come along
with us. But... we’re your parents, so you don’t have to worry.
We’ll keep you safe.”
    He gave the teenagers an
encouraging smile. “Now, go to sleep you guys. We’ll discuss this
tomorrow – if Akilah is right, then we’ll be in Lunaria within
twenty-four hours.”
    James and Anna left the teenagers
alone; as soon as they were gone, Luke looked at his friends. “You
don’t believe this, right, guys?” he said.
    “ Why not?” Tony said.
“It seemed all quite real.” Luke responded with a dismayed
snort.
    “ Magic?” he said,
flailing his arms around. “ ‘ My friends and I were taken to a magical world because we
read a stupid book and we defeated an evil force without knowing
what we were doing ’.” He
mocked the sound of his father’s voice, adding a nasal quality to
it. “I mean – come on! Dad’s just messing with us because we found
the book, and he’s pissed about it. He probably installed something
inside the book because he knew we’d get to it.”
    “ If
I were you, I’d wait and see before making any a ssumptions,” Theo told his brother. “I mean –
both Mum and Dad seemed very upset. I don’t think this is fake,
dude.”
    Luke grunted. “You two don’t have
anything to do with it,” he said, pointing at his two brothers.
“You didn’t ‘touch the book’.”
    The two boys exchanged a shrug.
“Do we?” Ian said.
    “ I don’t know,” Marco
said. “We’ll just have to wait and see...”
    “ We’ll just have to
go to sleep, you mean,” Luke said, clearly starting to get tired of
the conversation as he crawled across his bed, reaching for his
pillow. “This will all blow over tomorrow.”
    “ I hope you’re
right...” Daisy mumbled, as the other teens found their sleeping
bags and beds to go to sleep. “I really do.”
    *
    The next day, James organised a
meeting with his friends at his sister’s house.
    This was a serious
matter requiring discussion, and better within twelve hours. And,
since Daisy was involved with the matter, James had decided to
invite Lucy, too. She wouldn’t be coming along to Lunaria, as she
had no connection to Lunaria, but she did deserve the right to know
where her youngest daughter would be taken. James had advised her
to bring her husband Aton along too, but that was up to the two of
them to decide.
    James had made sure to bring the
book to explain the situation.
    As the group of adults sat down
in the living room and James put the book on the coffee