You enter the walled garden and before you shivers a small girl, her hair is unkempt and her face is buried in filthy hands.
She is crying and there is know one but you for comfort. You step closer and see her shawl is finely made but thread bare, the silver brocade is dull and old.
You notice her bare feet, which are dirty and bony and look more like stone or alabaster than flesh. She is tiny, a mere waif but crying so hard her shoulders are shaking. A deep sadness comes over you and you gently touch her shoulder.
She jumps at this shocked and withdraws as if you were going to hit her but then calms and controls herself her eyes wild and sharp like a cornered animal. Her gaze then locks upon yours and you realise she is not a young girl but a Faery.
Help me. she says and now there is only one purpose in your life, nothing else in the world matters. All you manage to say is how? as you speak the words seem to come from the earth, like the sound of a shovel being pushed into the ground.
You feel dizzy, light headed and she sees this in you, as if she can see right through you to your feelings and emotions.

Chapter one
The Walled Garden
Chapter two
She gathers herself and it is obvious she is thinking about where to start, with another glance at you and a little shrug of the shoulders it is obvious that her assessment is complete and not particularly favourable!! Here sit in the arbour beneath the Wisteria for a moment. She pulls her shawl tight and waits for you. If you are to help me then I cannot promise to protect you. I have waited here many years and still I am unable to unwind the charm that has tethered me here. But perhaps together it can be un done.
She frowns lightly and her tears are rubbed dry.
It is obvious that her spirits lift at the prospect of your assistance, but what must you do, and what is this tethering charm and more to the point, how can this charm be lifted?
You ask all these without saying a word and she replies I know you know nothing of the Faery realm or its ways, but they are here always, in the same way you cannot see radio waves, or though walls.
We exist like the comb of the honey bee, side by side, all the same but not the same. And I am stuck here away from my home, but if we are quick, and work together we can un-stitch this charm and I will be free. I need to tell you about charms, and enchantments. They are made of five parts, but all are as important as each other.
She frowns lightly and her tears are rubbed dry.
It is obvious that her spirits lift at the prospect of your assistance, but what must you do, and what is this tethering charm and more to the point, how can this charm be lifted?
You ask all these without saying a word and she replies I know you know nothing of the Faery realm or its ways, but they are here always, in the same way you cannot see radio waves, or though walls.
We exist like the comb of the honey bee, side by side, all the same but not the same. And I am stuck here away from my home, but if we are quick, and work together we can un-stitch this charm and I will be free. I need to tell you about charms, and enchantments. They are made of five parts, but all are as important as each other.
Chapter three
The first is the word
It is the shape of words as they leave your tongue, the way they rise from inside and flow on your breath.
When I ask you to speak out loud, I expect it to be done, you must pledge this now or our time will end here. Please pledge to me, out loud now these words, and this charm shall begin to unravel.
All in your party must say
I will help thee, Faery Queen.
It is important, it is the start and we must start well.
Say it now.
Have you all spoken?
I can hear Typhus coming, so we must move from here and begin, come quickly, you must do this next task without delay.
To protect you from any ill effects of contact with the Faery realm you must gather a leaf or twig from the Mulberry tree, only a small one as they are fragile things trees and I sleep in their arms often.
She is the largest tree in the Garden and bears the sweetest fruits. Place the leaf or twig in your left hand and go to the gate that leads into the next garden. As you pass the gate you must blow words through the key hole. This is what you must say and Typhus will not follow so easily.
lock thee behind me.
Blow these words through the key hole and hold your leaf fast for it will be needed later.
Have all done as requested?
Good.
The Queen draws you through the gate and next garden then on to the Dove Cot.
It is the shape of words as they leave your tongue, the way they rise from inside and flow on your breath.
When I ask you to speak out loud, I expect it to be done, you must pledge this now or our time will end here. Please pledge to me, out loud now these words, and this charm shall begin to unravel.
All in your party must say
I will help thee, Faery Queen.
It is important, it is the start and we must start well.
Say it now.
Have you all spoken?
I can hear Typhus coming, so we must move from here and begin, come quickly, you must do this next task without delay.
To protect you from any ill effects of contact with the Faery realm you must gather a leaf or twig from the Mulberry tree, only a small one as they are fragile things trees and I sleep in their arms often.
She is the largest tree in the Garden and bears the sweetest fruits. Place the leaf or twig in your left hand and go to the gate that leads into the next garden. As you pass the gate you must blow words through the key hole. This is what you must say and Typhus will not follow so easily.
lock thee behind me.
Blow these words through the key hole and hold your leaf fast for it will be needed later.
Have all done as requested?
Good.
The Queen draws you through the gate and next garden then on to the Dove Cot.
Go through the iron gate into the next garden then cross diagonally to the larger gates you can see. Once through these the Dove cote, which is a stout round building is opposite you.