4.19: On Mawbray Sands

Both Lottie and pTravis suddenly experience horrible, violent giddiness forcing them momentarily to close their eyes. pTravis is actually a little sick. When they open their eyes again, they are standing on a large wind-swept empty beach facing the big ‘Merlin Stone’ and several other awakened stones.

“Where are we?” asks pTravis, dazed.

“Mawbray Sands, where Merlin found the Stone. Or the Stone found Merlin, perhaps.”

“I didn’t know Merlin did anything here, anywhere in Cumbria. But I suppose, on this wide empty beach, and looking towards Scotland, it seems right.”

“Yes,” Lottie replies impatiently, “That is often the way with stories. Anyway, I persuaded him to go back into the sea here and take the awakened stones with him.”

“How did you do that?”

But before Lottie can reply, the wind suddenly stops and there is a strange somehow ‘deafening’ silence and all of the awakened stones vanish, leaving pTravis and Lottie alone on the beach. 

Is that it? Apparently it is.

“Better go home, then.”