sorcery

(Continued from the previous section.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Was it sorcery?" Acorn's eyebrows rose. "So I am 'sir' to you no longer, Michael?" Michael's jaw clenched. "What you are to me is of no moment beside what you are to the world."...

(A story of medieval Ireland, when Christianity was sweeping over the island but the creed and practices of the Druids had not yet relented their grip. There were many who still believed in the old ways, the ways of wood-sprites and water-nymphs, of Airish Men and magic...and perhaps they were...