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Collin. “Was this measly mortal just speaking to me?” she asked Molly, as if she had imagined Collin speaking up.

    “I’m afraid so,” Molly answered, hoping that Morganna wouldn’t recognize Collin. If she did, and revealed that information to Collin, Molly would have to scream.

    “Humph,” Morganna muttered, pulling Lachlan closer to her. “No doubt he believes that Arthur and I had a child together, and that Lady Gwenhwyfar had a romance with my husband.
    Well, now my reason for staying in the magical realm has been further reinforced. All mortals are as dumb as a load of bricks. I shall have to make a mad dash, so that I can teach a few things to Lachlan in private. Besides, the current company does not meet my approval,” she mused, pulling Lachlan away from the rest of the group.

    “Don’t let her take me,” he implored, beseechingly holding his arms out toward Molly.

    “She’ll make me wear bloody pink! Please, Molly…have some compassion…pink I tell you! PINK!” Lachlan wailed, as Morganna tugged him away from Molly.

    “Oh, Morganna. Don’t you think that punishment is a bit severe?” Molly asked, stepping toward them, though she kept her hand on Anwyn’s jeweled hilt.

    “What would you suggest? King Lachlan here has made a right and proper fool out of me and I had planned for him to march through the Town Square on a pink pony, with pink ribbons in her mane. Of course, I was going to loan him a bright pink dress to wear as he rode atop the pony,” Morganna mused, a devious grin spreading across her face.

    “You mean you aren’t going to slam him with a fire bolt?” Collin piped in, looking confused. “But in all of the legends, you were a force to be reckoned with. “

    “Be quiet, Collin,” Molly murmured, rolling her eyes at Morganna. “He’s touched,” she said, tapping her temple, as Collin snorted.

    “I haven’t gotten round to reading Morganna’s diary, but I’m sure that I’ll have time tonight,” he reasoned sensibly, slipping his hands in his pockets.

    Molly resisted the urge to slap herself on the forehead. Morganna let out a shocked little strangled gasp and whirled on her.

    “You lost our diaries?” Morganna shouted, causing Molly’s hair to billow out in a copper cloud around her.

    In Morganna’s moment of distraction, Lachlan smiled cheekily and slipped out of her grasp. Catching Molly’s eye, he tipped his hat to her and promptly disappeared into thin air.

    “I didn’t lose them. They were stolen from me,” she explained, sighing heavily.
    Morganna heaved out another outraged sigh that mirrored the ones she’d already expelled.

    “How could they have been stolen from you?” Morganna raged. In her fury, her raven hair began to billow out around her.
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    “My butler took them,” she looked down sheepishly at the floor and scraped her boot along the grainy surface.

    “Didn’t we tell you not to hire any mortals? Oh, Mary, how could you have been so foolish?” Morganna asked. “Why, when the council hears about this, you may be stripped of your power of command. Lord Merlin should be here to see you now. You’ve sworn off the use of your magic, except when you’re on the hunt, and now you failed us all, by losing our diaries!
    Why, they conceal our history, our many identities, and our secrets. You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself; if your father could see you now, he’d be heartbroken. He’d be beyond devastated. “

    “Shut it, Morganna,” she seethed, between clenched teeth. “Everything is being handled.
    I was in the process of reclaiming the diaries, when you and Lachlan showed up. And no one, no one is going to take my title away from me,” she declared. She straightened up. If Morganna thought to intimidate her, then she was right off her rocker.

    “Ah, yes, lest I forget. Not only were you made the leader of the High Order of Merlin, you are also our once and future Queen,”