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STONE AND GLASS
Aveline Jones glared at the thorny bramble lodged in the sleeve of her Tshirt. Wincing, she freed herself from its spiky grip. This was the most
ridiculously overgrown garden she’d ever stepped foot in. Sighing, she took
off her grimy glasses and wiped them on her T-shirt. She would be staying
here for the next couple of weeks, so supposed she’d better get used to it.
Aveline’s mum worked for a charity and had been so busy recently that
Aveline had abandoned hopes of actually going away for a summer holiday.
But then, with just enough time for a break before school started back up in
September, her mum had announced that she’d booked them a cottage in the
countryside, not too far from Bristol where they lived. Aveline would have
preferred two weeks on a beach in Spain, but this was better than nothing.
So while her friends were probably swimming in a perfect blue ocean
somewhere, here she was, having a fight with a blackberry bush.
However, there was one very good reason why Aveline was willing to
risk injury to reach the end of the garden.
The Witch Stones.
There was an ancient stone circle, right here in Norton Wick, the village
where they were staying. The name gave Aveline the shivers. Ghosts,
ghouls and witches were, of course, her specialist subject, and this creepily
named stone circle had been mentioned in a book she’d read once. Now she
would be able to visit it for real. Apparently, the stones had been here for
thousands of years but, as far as Aveline could tell, nobody really knew why
the circle had been built, though there were a lot of theories.
Some said it was a type of calendar, so ancient people could keep track
of the seasons. Others said it was a temple, where people might come and
worship the gods. There were those who claimed that aliens had built it.
Others said it was connected to the druids, ancient Celtic priests who were
either healers, wizards or bloodthirsty fiends, depending on who you
believed.
Aveline found it all very interesting, but it was the name of these stones
that really fascinated her. The book she’d read hadn’t mentioned anything
about witches, so why were they called The Witch Stones? The first step in
finding the answer would be to see them for herself, and the owner of the
cottage had told them that the stones were very close by. Right at the end of
the garden, in fact.
Steeling herself for more scratches from the vindictive blackberry
thorns, Aveline fought her way onwards. She would have thought someone
might have tidied the place up before they’d arrived. Plants and weeds
thrust themselves skyward, blocking her path at every turn. Sparrows and
thrushes scuttled in the undergrowth. Huge spiders bobbed between the
bushes on gossamer threads. Bees buzzed busily between the bright
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