“Are you thinking that this woodland spirit was behind your break-in?” Ariane said as he passed the scans of the missing pages over for them to see. The first showed a meticulous engraving of a puck-like creature. Not a piece of fantasy art, but a scientific illustration.
“This is not your usual woodland spirit,” Don said, “but an Elemental. And not just any old Elemental, but a prince among his kind. Folklore traditionally associates him with... ”
“The Blackwood Oak,” Damien read aloud.
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In the visitor centre’s map room, Damien switched on all the lights so that they could look at the big display. The room’s centrepiece was an enlarged then-and-now map of the valley, surrounded by historic photographs from a time before the building of the dam.
Don said, “In the eighteen-ninet
