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Part 4
Harold Bennett had arrived at the castle. Vasey knew that no mention would be made in the open about Meg being under a spell and was relieved.
If The Church ever got to hear that The Sheriff of Nottingham was involved in magic
then not even Prince John would lift a finger to save him.
For now he would behave like the perfect host. This evening Guy would be formally
asking Bennett for his daughter's hand in marriage.
The hall would be full of guests. It was Vasey's habit after each months Noble's Council to have the Lords and their Ladies as his guests to dinner.
A public declaration of love would end the spell once and for all. As long as it truly was Meg that Gisborne was offering his hand to that is...
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Harold headed towards the great hall. If Gisborne could free Meg from this spell;
then was prepared to get a priest in to marry them tomorrow if that was what they wanted.
He didn't reach the hall. Rough hands grabbed him and he was dragged into a room
hidden behind a tapestry depicting a stag hunt.
He was shocked to see both Vasey and his sister Davina standing there as he was bound tightly to a chair.
Davina held a goblet that she passed to her brother. She grabbed Harold's hand a drew a razor sharp dagger from a pocket on her girdle. With this she made a cut on his finger and had Vasey bring the cup close so that she could shake a few drops of blood into the contents.
Vasey mockingly raised the goblet to Harold and drank it down.
Davina smirked and headed out of the room whilst her brother transformed into an exact likeness of the man before him...
The sun was down. Davina and three guards stood in wait for Meg.
In she walked; as bright and shining as only a woman in love can be as she flies to
an important tryst with her beloved.
She'd been expecting Guy coming to meet her but Vasey and Davina had ensured he was delayed for a while.
Like her father Meg was grabbed by guards. She was dragged into a hidden corridor
where Davina took drops of her blood into another goblet.
She drank down the potion within and changed into an exact replica of the horrified young woman before her.
The tapestry over the corridor entrance parted. The face of Harold Bennett peered round it and grinned at the false Meg.
“ Shall we brother dearest ? “ Davina said offering her brother in disguise her arm.
She looked at the guards and pointed at the real Meg. “ Take her to where she can hear all that happens in the hall, “ she said. “ Can't have her missing our great performance. “
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Davina had also lent two servants the identities of both herself and her brother; so when Guy finally strode into the hall he was unaware of anything going on.
