"We don't have long." It was as though he thought someone might be listening in.
"Forsythe and his men are walking this street right now coming to get you."
"How do you know this?" asked Nervina, who was convinced that it was Barnabus who had probably tipped him off about their being back in London.
Barnabus tapped his earpiece - they had all assumed it was an ordinary hearing aid, but it was not.
"Just got word" he said.
"Oh" said Nervina, perplexed as to why the old man was wearing a transmitter and wondering also who it could be that was informing him of these things.
"They are trying to trap you" he went on. "I've seen it before. It's a nasty business with them capturing spirit beings." He paused to fine tune his earpiece.
Goober would have liked to correct him about them not being spirits exactly, but it seemed pointless in the light of what was to come.
"I would offer to hide you but they would find you soon enough" he added.
"Then what is it you suggest ... that we retreat back into the Woods as we have always done?”
"No, we must call upon those who have the powers to help" the old man replied earnestly.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
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