Chapter 7 – Seeing the Light

I then said “What just happened to me and how did you do that?” Merilyn chuckled and the light disappeared. “Oh Mummy, these people today have no idea of what they have let loose” she said “If we had been able harness lightning in the early time we could have ruled the world."

"Now they can make lightning at will! Don’t even get me started on radio waves; I am still trying to get on top of those. The problem for me is that they are all around, all the time and they keep changing. What just happened is the energy ball has triggered the bits of your body that retain residual memories of past lives.” “Do you know how you came about, other than me making you?” I asked. Merilyn nodded her head and said “I do have an idea. The injections you got triggered sections of your inner body, I think it is called DNA but I have not learned enough to be sure. Your body was already able to provide a place for me and there were hidden parts of you that had lain dormant through your family line for fifteen hundred years. You must have come through the female line because you now have some of the memories of the original Morgan and you also passed to me the memories of Merlin, but from your own point of view when you were Morgan Le Fay. Together we did wonders in our time but today there is more to do because the dark forces are again swirling.”

I was finding it difficult to understand all this even though I had suspected something for a couple of years already. We went into the kitchen and poured us both some orange juice and I asked how much she knew, seeing that she would have to start school soon. She assured me that she had much of her inherited knowledge and had been reading every book or magazine I had left around. I said that I would bring home books for her and she asked me to get physics and biology books so she could hone her powers. “What about my powers?” I asked “Was I able to do anything?”

“You could move things and you were also very good at reading people and then manipulating them” she said, “You should be able to produce light or power globes like the one I did before. Why don’t you give it a go?” She took my hand and I could feel the electricity that was around us from the lights and the power supply. She told me to feel the currents and then take some from the wires and manifest it in front of me. Suddenly a tiny globe of blue light appeared in front of me but surprised me so much I lost concentration and it popped as it disappeared.

“Mummy, that was so good for your first try” she said “Do it again but take it slowly.” I concentrated again and this time the globe was a bit bigger and more stable. I willed it to move across the room and then back to us and then consciously turned it off. “Now bring that cup from the sink to this table” she asked and I tried. It did not move for a while and I tried to concentrate more and the cup then left the sink, whizzed past us and smashed itself against the wall. Merilyn clapped her hands and laughed “Mummy, Mummy, that was so good but I think we are going to have to turn the power down a bit.”

From then on I started getting books for her to look at. I went into Wadebridge to a bookshop where I told them that I had a brother going to university in Exeter and I needed to get him the basic books on electricity, electronics, physics and thermos-dynamics. Merilyn would give me a nudge when they named ones she wanted to read and we left with seven that would keep her busy for a few weeks. We went to the local school and I asked about special schooling for a very bright child. I told them that my daughter would suffocate if she had to spend years in kindergartens or primary schools and we arranged a day where she could sit an exam to see where she was, even though she had not yet started her first year.

She sat the exam while I sat with a teacher and watched her. She breezed through the first paper and, when the teacher looked at it he got her another to do. When she finished that he followed up with another. He asked us to sit and wait while he showed the papers to a colleague. He came back with another guy and they told us that Merilyn was already at a level of her general knowledge and mental ability to be in high school but that she needed to have targeted teaching that would give her the basic pass marks to get into a special school and skip primary altogether.

We asked if she could get going on that path as soon as we could and they took my contact details and said they would be in touch when they had set it up. We went to another bookshop and I picked up the primary school textbooks for maths, English and general science. Over the next few weeks we tried to show a normal existence to the outside world while we practised our powers and she absorbed all of the books we had got. All the while we monitored the newspapers and TV for stories about Sir Lionel and Vincent Melehan. One of the things that I had found in Griffs’ things that I had kept was a phone number for Gwen. I went into Launceston one day and rang it from a public phone. It went to a voice mail so I left a message, saying “Gwen, it’s Morgan, I will ring this number again tomorrow at the same time.”

The next day I went to Bodmin to call from a phone box. When she answered I said “Gwen, I know that it has been almost five years since we last spoke. Are there any changes I should know about?” She hesitated and then said that everything was as it was before and that Sir Lionel wanted to speak to me. When he came on I suspected that he was worried about something. “Dear Morgan” he said “You have really been off the radar for a while. It is as if you just disappeared and then the money that was in your account was shifted. Tell me, how is your child, is she angelic or demonic?” I laughed and said “Neither, Sir Lionel, she is much more into your special story, nothing to do with biblical stories at all.” “I want to meet the two of you” he asked “can we make it next Saturday afternoon, somewhere open. I do have worries about some of my colleagues if they knew you were still around.” I told him that I would ring this number and give him thirty minutes to get to where I would be but it would be in London.

When I put the phone down Merilyn tugged at my skirt and said “Leave quickly, Mummy, someone was trying to track that call and I think we may have some unwanted visitors about to call on us.” I gathered my bags and we walked towards a shopping centre and just got to the main doors when a police car pulled up at the phone box. We went quickly to the car, carefully parked on one of the lower floors. We sat in the car and Merilyn suddenly said “Leave now, by the furthest exit because they are going to search all cars leaving the shops but only have enough men to start near the phone box.” I drove the car away from where we had come in and went out onto a back road, getting to the corner as a police car went past me to block the exit we had just used. On the way back to Camelford I asked Merilyn how much detail she had been able to get. “When they were close to us, Mummy, I could hear their talking on the radio as if they were standing next to us. I did think that it was not Sir Lionel that was trying to track us but someone was listening in to Gwens’ phone.” As we went home she was dancing in her seat and singing along to a popular song. I turned the radio on to the local station and it synchronised with her singing.

We would have to plan the meeting very carefully. It needed to be somewhere open enough for us to see any unwanted visitors and we needed to be able to vet Sir Lionel when he arrived and before we showed ourselves. We went into Plymouth and I bought six cheap mobile phones with a pay-as-you-go plan and put twenty pounds on each one. I paid cash, something I had been doing for some years now. Sir Lionel had asked about the money that Morgan Pendlebury had and that had been shifted via a few offshore banks into an account under Morgan Jeffrey. I went to a branch, never the same one twice in six months, and took out enough cash to last a month. Griff had forged a marriage certificate and I had become Mrs Griff Jeffrey well before he died.

On the Saturday we took the train to London and made our way to Hyde Park, mingling with the crowds in the sunshine. We were both resplendent in summer dresses and I carried a big bag with a picnic in it. We stopped at the Magazine Restaurant and I made a booking for an afternoon tea with a table for four. We then strolled up the western edge of the lake and stopped at the Peter Pan statue. There was a bench which was right in front and we sat and looked around. When I was sure no-one was watching I took one of the mobile phones and a ball of blue-tack. Reaching under the seat I stuck it safely out of sight. I rang it from one of the other phones to make sure it worked and that someone sitting here would hear it.

We then wandered around the end of the lake and back down to the other side until we reached a bit of open ground opposite the statue and spread our picnic under a tree. With another of the phones I rang the number and said “Hyde Park, Peter Pan statue, sit and wait for me.” I then took the SIM card out and also removed the battery, putting them in the bag. We sat and ate our sandwiches and Merilyn acted as if she was looking at the clouds. After about twenty minutes she said “Six radios, three following and three scouting the statue area. We looked across the water and, sure enough, I could see three guys trying to act casual.

They had a good look around before moving away out of sight. I then spotted Sir Lionel, Gwen and Lance walking along the pathway to the statue. As instructed, after they had a good look around they sat on the seat. I rang the phone I had secreted and I saw Gwen reach under and pull it out. When she answered I said “Code red, you have six watchers. Magazine Restaurant at four, booking for Lancelot.” I turned my phone off and removed the SIM and battery. I saw her put the phone in her bag and speak quietly to Lance before talking to Sir Lionel. They then stood and acted as if everything had gone bad. As they walked quickly away I could see the watchers come out of hiding and Merilyn giggled as she told me that there were a lot of recriminations flying about the airwaves as they tried to figure out which one had been spotted. They certainly were now because I could see Gwen doing something with her face that required her mirror and I knew she had picked them out now. She would be on a war footing from here on, of that I was sure.

Merilyn and I just sat there in the sun, looking as calm as you like. Merilyn said that the watchers were making a sweep to see if they could spot anyone suspicious and smiled when she said “One of them just looked at us with binoculars and he said that he fancied you.” She then got up and skipped across to talk to another young girl not far away. Together they played chasee with some boys until the other mothers started calling their children to get ready to go home. She came back to me and reported that all was clear so we wandered down to the Magazine Restaurant where I told them that I had made a reservation for Lancelot and that I thought that three others would join me later.

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