16
THE SPRINGS
‘Slow down, boy,’ Lizzie’s voice cracked firmly through the communication device.
She and Vey had gathered together so that Thordric could explain the situation to them both at the same time, but all they had heard so far was that he was in a terrible panic about something to do with trees.
Thordric took a deep breath, looking at Morweena and Hamlet, who were still sitting around the table with him. It had taken them a long time to recover from their surprise at the communicator, particularly when Lizzie had first spoken and Morweena thought she had come back to visit again.
‘There’s some kind of magic out in the Valley Flats that’s making a forest grow. It’s spreading so fast that it will probably overrun the town in a matter of days,’ he said. ‘The worst part is that
