![]() ![]() Bran reveals that Merriman visited him before Will arrived, told him to keep an eye out for Will and help him, and taught him the first part of the clue rhyme as a show that he can be trusted. The owner of the dog is an albino boy named Bran, who surprisingly knows the clues that Will had been struggling to remember. An encounter with a strange dog with silvery eyes brings back the rest of Will’s memory, reminding him that he is the youngest of the Old Ones and it is his mission to find a magical harp in Wales. On his way to stay with them on their farm, Will sees a mountain that locals call “the Grey King”, which begins bringing back Will’s memory of the clues to the next item of power that he and his friends are supposed to find. Will calls his relatives Aunt Gem and Uncle David, but really, they’re distant cousins. What he’s forgotten are the clues that he and his friends discovered at the end of the previous book, but little by little, they come back to him. ![]() Even after he recovers, Will has a nagging feeling that he’s forgotten something very important. ![]() ![]() In the previous book, his sister Mary had gone to stay with relatives in Wales after she had the mumps, so his parents agree to send him there. Will Stanton has been very ill with hepatitis, and the doctor ask advised his parents to send him somewhere to rest for a while and recover his strength. This is the fourth book in The Dark is Rising Sequence, and it picks up not long after the previous book ends. ![]()
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