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William stared at Doctor Nichols as the carriage rocked them all back and forth with its near-hypnotic sway. Only slivers of moonlight reached inside the carriage, along with the diffuse glow from the lantern that hung in front of it. Bodicea glowed slightly in the darkened interior of the carriage. Tamara held her hands upon her lap, one over the other, but William saw that her back was rigid. The doctor certainly had all of their attention.
"Faerie sisters," Bodicea suggested, her voice low and laden with anxious warning. "You're saying Edric took a faerie bride."
Doctor Nichols nodded. "Or so the legends say. Her name was Lady Godda. She is said to have remained with Edric after he was cursed, and lives with him beneath the ground, trapped by her love for him just as he is condemned by the curse. One day, it is said, England will have need of him and he will be given a chance to redeem himself and on that day Wild Edric will ride out of the ground with Lady Godda and the miner-soldiers, and the curse will break."
"And until then, they're stuck with one another," Tamara said, her voice hoarse in the gloomy dark within the carriage.
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