The interior looked a lot like the vessels, but with divots and grooves and markings and nothing really made sense.
Quentin pointed. “What if we touch that?”
Fraoch said, “Daena do it, I daena trust it.”
Zach said, “Me either. We shouldn’t touchanythinguntil we know, right?”
Quentin said, “Yes, absolutely. The vessels hurt, the Trailblazer wants to kill us. If we activate this horrific piece of machinery it will likely raze the neighborhood. Imagine!”
Fraoch shivered.
“When will Lady Mairead be back with instructions?”
“Tomorrow,” said Emma, then she looked at the clock, “I mean today. It’s almost morning.”
I yawned, “I gotta go to sleep. You coming to bed, honey?”
“Nae, I must do guard duty, ye ken, Og Maggy would want me tae.”
Everyone shuffled off to the paneled bedrooms to sleep under the vintage quilts in the wooden beds that had been there since Kaitlyn's grandparents had owned the place. Fraoch and I had the pullout bed in the living room. I made it ready, and collapsed onto it, and was asleep before I could even worry about anything.
CHAPTER 40 - HAYLEY
During breakfast there was another storm. Fraoch tossed down his napkin. “Lady Mairead is right on time, the earlier the better.”
But Lady Mairead wasn’t in the grass: it was Magnus.
Fraoch and Quentin and I sat around the field waiting for him to wake. I had a bottle of fresh vitamin juice for him, but it took him a long time to rouse. Finally his eyes opened and he looked up at the sky. “Och.”
He turned his head to look at us, “I daena ken if Kaitlyn is goin’ tae make it if we daena hurry.”
Quentin said, “That’s the problem, boss, we don’t know where we’re hurrying to or how.”
I said, “But Fraoch and I got the Bridge, it’s… hopefully it’s the answer to all of this.”
“Did Finch Mac’s father-in-law give it tae ye?”
Fraoch said, “We stole it.”
Magnus sat up, not disturbed at all by our confession. “So we hae tech, do we ken how tae use it?”
Fraoch said, “I was hopin’ ye might be able tae figure it out, once ye saw it. Ye ken the most of all of us.”
Magnus ran his hand through his hair. “If I ken the most, Lady Mairead will ken more.” He put out a hand and Quentin hefted him up to his feet.
We strolled back to the lake house.
Fraoch said, “On an up-note, we will soon get tae meet our new brother. I figure once he kens we stole from his father-in-law he will be comin’ round tae meet us.” We all laughed.
Magnus said, “He can come around as long as we can get tickets tae his concert. I hae never seen one, I would love tae someday.”
I said, “I’ll have Kaitlyn add it to her list.”
He exhaled, kicking some gravel from his path. “Did this brother hae a great deal of tech?”
Fraoch said, “I am nae sure, his father-in-law showed us a few things.”
“How was Lady Mairead? He has written a history of my uncle, I assume she was infuriated. If I ken her well, she tried tae explain her side of the story?”
