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A Shaft of Moonlight

Toybox Book Three

by Tony Farnden

A Shaft of Moonlight - Tony Farnden - Toybox
Editions:ePub - First Edition: $ 0.99
ISBN: 9798227415189
Pages: 40

A Shaft of Moonlight continues the story of separated lovers Leaf (Tel) and Star (Nova). The travellers Nova, Daniel, Astra and Arlo, enter the forest in their search for Daniel's mother having avoided detection so far. Meanwhile Tel plays with unfamiliar magic without realising what the consequences may be. He sets about enabling the inhabitants of Tolly's to access the world magic and their own magic. There are new friends to make and old ones to reconnect with as the party journeys deep into the Great Forest while Tel makes a life for himself in Tolly's.

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Tropes: Inaccessible Magic
Word Count: 11876
Setting: The Great Forest and Tolly's
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Tropes: Inaccessible Magic
Word Count: 11876
Setting: The Great Forest and Tolly's
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Excerpt:

“We’re lost! Lost!” Birds swirled around him, squawking, shouting. He covered his ears with his hands and slumped to his knees.

“You did what you had to do,” his grandfather said. “Own it!”

“But look, the feet are all wrong.” He lifted a foot, revealing talons. “They are still bird feet.”

“They’re feet. They can be walked on and just think how useful they’ll be. You worry too much.”

“No! They shouldn’t look like this!”

He felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up into the darkest eyes he’d ever seen. “Tel?”

“It’s okay. Breathe. You are dreaming. We both are. Start at the beginning.”

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Daniel took a deep breath and let it out slowly. “Dreaming?”

“Yeah, that’s why you can see me, sort of. I’m in your head. At least I think that’s how it works.”

“You mean you don’t look like a Barbary pirate?”

“A pirate?”

“Yeah, dark skin and a raggedy beard. Dangerous and exciting. Piratey clothes and earrings. With rings everywhere.''

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About the Author

Tony is touched by fairies and he does wish they would stop poking him when he walks his dogs. Since he moved to the wilds of Wales things have got no better. Anyway he has made a tentative offer to them. He's gong to write about them, tell their stories and spread a little fae love. They are thinking about it. Tony is not sure they'll approve when they read the tales he's been telling. He's not so worried as he believes he has the dragons on his side. He rather likes dragons in all their shapes and flavours. Whether they feel the same way . . . he's sure they're fine about it.

He's not so into social media but that could change. He could write about his bees, his garden, his wine and beer making but that might imply he's quite good at it while in fact he's more often surprised than anything else when something goes right. (That's not necessarily so when it goes awry.)

Oh yeah. He sometimes writes science fiction as well as fantasy, both he hopes with some romance involved or at least some kind of action or other.