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John Spencer Yantiss, Author
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Category:
Fantasy
Publisher: Amazon.com
ISBN-10: 1541081978
Type: Fiction
Pages: 472
Copyright: Dec. 10th, 2016
ISBN-13: 9781541081970
Price: $5.95 (eBook)
Buckle up and in and, if need be, grab onto something strong, hard and fast, for you are about to learn things about this world, things of which you’ve never had the teeny, tiniest inkling. Rylie’s and Muffet’s Adventure is a saga of magic, or wundorcræft, good and evil, things earthly and heavenly, of hope and woe, and the meaning of life.
Mr. and Mrs. Rylie Rabet are not everyday rabbits. On the other hand, what is revealed in this tale is that no rabbit is what most of us take them to be. One day, about middle spring, Rylie tells Muffet that he has been hankering to see a little bit of the wider world, beyond the Green Meadow and the Babbling Brook. At first Muffet is wary, and telling him her fears of known and unknown threats. Making light of his own yearnings, he brushes the thought aside, talking of their favourite berries that should be very good that year. After a visit from Eldma Cottontail, who scolds Muffet, her elddaughter, telling her that she shouldn’t deny her husband, Muffet changes her mind. She runs to catch up to him at Marty and Marcy’s hutch, and after they have a very close talk, Rylie and Muffet decide to set off on what he calls an adventure.
Very quickly they cross the Big River and wind up in the Great Forest where they meet a huge rabbit, also with the last name Rabet, i’ sooth one Rylan Rabet, who turns out to be Rylie’s ealdǣm, or granduncle. After helping them to grasp, at least at bottom, who he is, he takes them to his tree burȝ, or castle, Haremore, and tells them that they began their “adventure” because of a calling that they had felt in their hearts from earliest kithood. There, among many wundorweorcs, or miracles, they are ushered into, by Ealdmōme Musset, Rylan’s wysress wife, a sight of, indeed brief walk along the fringes of the enchanted realm, indeed heaven. On an enchanted, or gealdored dream eýre they encounter and begin to get to know Cærwyn, an ǣlf lord, and at a coming-out banquet meet all manner of gealdored fólc, finding out that what they thought was their three-day stay was truly over thirty days, a thrīnight.
The day after the banquet Ealdǣm Rylan sends them to the town of Wilmington, NC for a schipfáre to Wales. Once at sea they find that their “adventure” was foredoomed from the first Age, by none other than Elesudor, or Arglwydd O’ Olau. After meeting in person, and face to face, a human, an enkerly large human, also part ǣlf and droich, and the Captain of the craft, the H. M. S. Columbia, they come upon the workings of Serynbore, Prince of Deorcness, through his minion, Draygul. The schip is pierced with deorc wundorcræft, broken up and sunk. Along with Trevor Legrand, the captain, they are saved by Cærwyn, and his môrǣlfr kinswoman, Môrweissa, queen of môrǣlfr. By the help of Albræshé and Lorænell, two strapping môrǣlfr accompanying Môrweissa, Rylie and Muffet, together with Trevor Legrand, are swiftly and joyfully borne to Bermuda.
Cærwyn finds them another schip, the Glamourgyn. At sea again, the Glamourgyn is likewise attacked, by the same Draygul who destroyed the first. In the aftermath, all aboard schip, eardfólc and ǣldere fólc alike, sailors, ǣlfr, sprites and môrpixie, and the wundor that is Trevor Aubrey Legrand, have the scales swept off their eyes, and see what Elesudor had first moulded them to be. Môrweissa and Cærwyn feel proud that their charges finally understand who and what they are, and are all set to find an meet kinman Thurborn in Wales, who will guide them further in their gealdored odyssey.
Much like the combined allegories in Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia, Rylie Rabet…an Adventure will challenge your imagination, and your thinking about why we are on the earth, all in a thrilling tale of mystery and wundor.
Excerpt
It was a gathering that no one would forget, no matter how worldly, or how gealdored, each might soothly be. Harefot Rylie and Muffet, who had been still and husht, their minds racing to take in all that their soules were bewraying and opening up to them, kenned that this, this selfsame hap, this meeting of gealdored and earthly fólc was why Serynbore was so set on doing them in. If he couldn’t soothly kill them, he would try to put off their reaching Kinman Thurborn, V, at least until he could cast other ways to thwart them fully becoming what he feared more than anything but Elesudor Himself: those who just might show all earthly fólc how to scrape the scales from their eyes, and see once again what the Fæder had begun when first He shaped the world.
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