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    The Kingdom-Volume 1
    The Kingdom-Volume 1
    The Kingdom-Volume 1
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    The Kingdom-Volume 1

    By David Morris

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    A child is walking in the woods with her father and brother and spots a row of white bluebells. In the distance, at the end of the row of white bluebells, is a dwarf, all three can see him and know he is talking, but only Suzi (the daughter) can understand him.

    In the true fashion of a fairy story, the row is not straight but wanders about all over the place; Suzi tries to leave the row and take the obvious shortcut, but they start to turn back into ordinary bluebells and the dwarf gets very agitated and starts to shout in an annoyed ‘dwarfish’ language. He gets agitated because he had turned the bluebells white in order to get Suzi to see them and come to his world, The Kingdom.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAustin Macauley
    Release dateAug 31, 2018
    ISBN9780463554876
    The Kingdom-Volume 1
    Author

    David Morris

    David is an engineer of many years' standing and has spent time working in the Middle East. He is married and has two adult children and five grandchildren. He enjoys telling stories to the grandchildren, watching their reactions and answering their questions. He is a keen amateur cyclist.

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      The Kingdom-Volume 1 - David Morris

      About the author

      David is an engineer of many years’ standing and has spent time working in the Middle East. He is married and has two adult children and five grandchildren. He enjoys telling stories to the grandchildren, watching their reactions and answering their questions.

      He is a keen amateur cyclist.

      ***

      Dedication

      To my daughter and son, without whom this book would never have been written

      ***

      The Kingdom

      Published by Austin Macauley at Smashwords

      Copyright 2018 David Morris

      The right of David Morris

      to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the

      Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All Rights Reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with the written permission of the publisher, or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended). Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      A CIP catalogue record for The Kingdom

      available from the British Library.

      www.austinmacauley.com

      ISBN 9781787107700 (Paperback)

      ISBN 9781787107717 (E-Book)

      First Published in 2018

      Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.

      CGC-33-01, 25 Canada Square

      Canary Wharf, London E14 5LQ

      ***

      Acknowledgements

      To the teachers from many years ago who taught me to read and the value of reading.

      Also, to all of the fantasy books I have read over the years and, of course, to the authors of those books who have inspired me to tell this story in the first place.

      ***

      Characters

      Suzi – a child in this world but a magician in The Kingdom, who does not know what powers she has and even when they become apparent, does not know how to use them, so frequently gets it all wrong. She will eventually learn how to use these powers before she comes back to our world. She spends a long time looking for the tree again, making Mum and Dad keep going to Bluebell Woods for caravan weekends.

      One day, many years later, when she is a mother herself and on a walk with her son and dad, who is of course now a grandad, she finds some more white bluebells!!!!! She follows them to a tree and finds a door, but when she goes through it, she finds herself back in The Kingdom; all the bright colours have gone and the people are all two dimensional, like black and white photographs.

      Dad – a dad who just happens to be taking his child for a walk when all this happens and who is always looking to one side to try and work out what is happening! His mobile phone has stopped working as well!

      Daniel – Suzi’s brother, who is not much involved originally and does not really want to be there but who later suddenly becomes very important when he is a Great Lord.

      The King – who is a very nice man, a bit like a grandad, who is being hurt by his queen, a much younger and evil woman.

      Dwarf – the King’s Chancellor – Bryn.

      The Wicked Queen – the King’s wife, a very wicked lady.

      The Black Knight (Lord Morgim) – the Queen’s evil champion

      The Court Jester

      The Court Magician – Jaoby

      The Dwarves – apart from Bryn, the dwarf who we meet first. We are never sure which ones we can trust!

      Various bands of villains in the shape of gremlins, dragons of varying sizes (some of whom can be good), some toys who have minds of their own that have been lost or thrown away by their real-world children. Sometimes they just want to be played with again and whilst you are, originally, never sure what they are going to do, (like a toy fireman who sets light to things and a toy policeman who steals sweets), what they do is not really wrong, just a misguided wish to be noticed!

      The Children (who used to be ‘real children’) but were stolen by the Queen.

      ***

      ***

      Contents

      One The Discovery

      Two The King’s Court

      Three The Journey

      Four The Wicked Queen’s Court

      Five The Escape

      Six The Rescue of Dad

      Seven The Battle

      Eight Saving the Kingdom

      Nine The King’s Party

      Epilogue

      ***

      One

      The Discovery

      Bryn, the dwarf, was getting very annoyed. In the distance, he could see Lady Suzi and Lord Daniel walking with somebody who could well be their dad, but no matter how loud he shouted or waved his arms, they just took no notice at all. I might just as well be invisible, Bryn muttered to himself. Suddenly, he realised that in this world, he probably was! I need to do something, he mumbled. I know, how about I paint some of these bluebells white, in a line leading to me?

      At which, he jumped from his tree stump, ran to where Lady Suzi was, got out his paintbrush and started to paint a line of bluebells white. He was walking backwards while he did it, so the line was not straight.

      Daddy, why are those bluebells not blue? shouted Suzi.

      Where? said Dad, walking along and thinking about nothing at all really other than keeping Suzi and her brother occupied, while Mum got tea ready in the caravan.

      Over there, look, they are white and they go in a wiggly line all the way to that tree over there.

      Suzi tried to leave the row and take the obvious short cut, but they started to turn back into ordinary bluebells and the dwarf got very agitated and started to shout in an annoyed ‘dwarfish’ language. He got agitated because he had turned the bluebells white in order to get Suzi to see them and come to his world, The Kingdom.

      As they started turning back to blue, the dwarf became transparent. Suzi started to be unable to see him again and if this happened, Suzi would never be able to go and save The Kingdom, which the dwarf knew she could do. The dwarf has a very limited amount of magic here, so he cannot easily turn the bluebells white again.

      Suzi ran off along the row of white bluebells and stopped by the tree. "Look, there is a door here

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