19: The Game
Olivia clicked 'publish'.
There. Her blog was updated.
She'd written several posts at once, which she would keep ready to publish when necessary. She'd hoped it would take her mind of things.
It hadn't.
Several semi-powerful pieces were closing in. Approximately two pawns had been taken off the board. Whoever it was temporarily or not, she did not know. In chess, once a piece was off the board, it could not come back on.
Well, unless a pawn reached the other side and got promoted, and another piece was used in conjunction or instead of that pawn to symbolise its new status.
Except that wasn't the point.
But this wasn't completely a game of chess. Not really. There were too many pieces. On a chess board, there were no 'territories'.
And in a game of chess there wasn't ten pieces, far off the board, which were in the game, then not in it. Who could come in at any moment, or stay neutral for the whole game.
No. Surely they wouldn't. They stood for Lady Eleanor, therefore Hephzibah. There fought constantly against Death Wolves. They would have to come in and help soon.
Wouldn't they?
Olivia remembered that moment when she, Daisy and Pippa had been running towards the TARDIS, and had heard those two names being blared out. Hephzibah, and Aodh.
One was familiar.
One was not.
She concentrated hard for a moment.
"Hey. You there? Cooey. Wakey wakey."
The medallion grew warm.
Yes, child?
"One word." She told it. "Aodh.2
Hephzibah, or what was left of her soul that was trapped permanently inside the medallion, waited to respond for some time.
It is a name. She replied.
How helpful. "Yes, but who is it? What does it mean? I know it has something to do with you. Who's Aodh? One of my relatives? One of your friends from when you were, you know, alive?" A suspicion was beginning to grow in her mind.
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