Legacy The Mark of Merlin
by
Gerald Pruett
CCB Publishing British Columbia, Canada
Legacy: The Mark of Merlin
Copyright ©2011 by Gerald Pruett
ISBN-13 978-1-926918-76-1
First Edition
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Pruett, Gerald, 1963-
Legacy : the mark of Merlin [electronic resource ] / by Gerald Pruett.
Electronic monograph in PDF format.
ISBN 978-1-926918-76-1
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I. Title. II. Title: Mark of Merlin.
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Contents
In Carmarthen, England, beneath a full moon and approximately nine months before Merlin’s birth, a ten-year-old girl climbed down from a wooden lab-type table. The girl was wearing everyday clothes for the time period, and once her feet had touched the wooden floor of the twenty by twenty-five foot room she marveled over her physical appearance.
“This will work nicely,” the girl said in a low volume voice after a second of examining herself.
“What’s going on?!” a woman’s scared voice was heard from across the room. The girl turned towards the forty-year-old woman. The woman was on her feet while looking in a nearby decorative mirror and lightly dragging her fingers over her face. “I’m an old lady and I look like Marbella!”
“You’re not an old lady,” the girl told the woman.
The woman faced the girl before saying in a frightened voice, “You… you look like me… the way I should look.”
“Breena, it’s me Marbella. You’re in my body and I’m in yours.”
“How did this happened, Marbella?”
“I’m a sorceress and I needed a different body…”
“You did this? You made me into an old lady?”
“You’re not an old lady,” Marbella insisted. “And unfortunately—for you anyway—I can’t allow you to live to become an old woman.”
“You’re going to kill me?” Breena asked worriedly. “But you’ve been nice to me. You said that we were friends.”
“It’s not anything personal, Breena… or should I say Marbella. The king had found out that I was a sorceress and now his men are hunting me. So I needed a new body. Witches and warlocks don’t possess the power that I need and therefore, I needed a young sorceress or a young wizard’s body to hide in and your body was the only sorceress’s body available.”
“But… but I’m no sorceress,” Breena insisted.
“Oh, but you