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    Faebound: The Otherworld Series, #10
    Faebound: The Otherworld Series, #10
    Faebound: The Otherworld Series, #10
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    Faebound: The Otherworld Series, #10

    By Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

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    Aiden Elam has always been different from the other kids he knows.  The adults say he has autism, but Aiden isn’t so sure.  He can understand everyone just fine, he just can’t get the words out to tell them.  Now, if he could only get past the strange feeling that keeps him trapped inside his own mind, then maybe he could tell his parents about the weird things he sees.  Or perhaps he could even tell his sister, Meggy, for he knows she can hear and see the strange things, too.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJenna Elizabeth Johnson
    Release dateJun 17, 2016
    ISBN9781533761552
    Faebound: The Otherworld Series, #10
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    Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

    Jenna Elizabeth Johnson is a best-selling, multi-award winning author of Fantasy and Young Adult Paranormal Romance. Jenna grew up and still resides on the Central Coast of California, a place she finds as magical and enchanting as the worlds she creates. Jenna received a BA in Art Practice with a minor in Celtic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. It was during her time in college that she decided to begin her first novel, The Legend of Oescienne - The Finding. Reading such works as Beowulf, The Mabinogi and The Second Battle of Maige Tuired in her Scandinavian and Celtic Studies courses finally inspired her to start writing down her own tales of adventure and fantasy. Jenna also enjoys creating the many images and maps for her various worlds. Besides writing and drawing, she is often found reading, gardening, camping, hiking, bird watching, and practicing long sword fighting and archery using a long bow. She also loves getting feedback from readers, so feel free to send her a message any time.  Jenna Elizabeth Johnson is currently working on the fourth book of her Oescienne series, as well as more novels and novellas in the Otherworld series, and any other book ideas that might come to her along the way. For more on the author and her books, and for contact information and to sign up for the author's newsletter, visit: www.jennaelizabethjohnson.com or send an email to: authorjejohnson@gmail.com

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      Faebound - Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

      Part One

      Ghoulies in the Classroom

      It’s so very hard to be little, especially when you are little and unable to tell people what you are thinking.  On the other hand, sometimes being stuck inside your own head can be a good thing.  I can think better about stuff that way.  Not the usual stuff everyone else my age thinks about, like when the newest episode of their favorite cartoon is going to air, or if their moms will let them go on a play date with their best friend, but the kind of stuff they don’t notice normally.  I think it’s because most kids and adults are so distracted by all the noise and lights in the world that they miss the cool stuff.

      Well, I guess ‘cool’ is the wrong word to describe it.  ‘Creepy’ is probably a better word.  Just yesterday, something creepy happened at my school.  I don’t go to the same kind of school my brothers go to, but I’m pretty sure weird little monsters don’t just climb into their classrooms in the middle of lunch recess.

      At normal schools, you have to talk to people and answer your teacher if she asks a question.  Where I go to school, I don’t have to do any of that.  I like learning and discovering new things just fine, but at a regular school, I think the noises and the mean kids would be too much for me.  Mom and Dad say that I have autism, and that’s why I have trouble behaving like a normal kid.  I don’t know that much about autism, but from what I heard Mom and Dad saying when they thought I wasn’t listening is that I have many of the symptoms.

      At the time, I didn’t know what a symptom was, so I had to look it up in Logan’s dictionary.  He’s my older brother.  It was hard pulling the dictionary from his bookshelf and even harder to find the word.

      I knew it was in the S section, but sometimes when I’m doing something, my body won’t stop when I tell it to.  Like looking for the word.  My fingers kept flipping the pages long after I realized I had wandered into the T’s.  Other times, my body works faster than my mind, and I’ll stop in the middle of doing something even when my brain is asking me to keep going.  It is very frustrating, but I have learned to live with it.

      When I finally made it back to the right spot in the S’s, I read that a symptom is a sign that something is wrong.  That had scared me.  For a whole week, I moved around the house more carefully and quietly than normal.  Being scared of something when you can’t tell your family why is very hard.

      Eventually, Mom sat down with me and gradually discovered the reason for my glum mood.

      Symptoms, was all I could say.

      She must have realized I had overheard her and Dad, because she told me my autism made me different than other kids, but not sick or bad.  She said the doctor was going to try to find some medicine to make me better, but that I didn’t need to worry because she and Dad would look after me.

      Meggy? I had asked, in a small voice.

      Meggy was what I called my older sister, but her real name is Meghan.  Of my entire family, I love Meghan the most, maybe even more than Mom and Dad.  It sounds awful, to love your sister more than your parents, but for some reason I just do.  It’s like my heart has special little rooms inside for all my family and friends, but Meggy’s spot is bigger than all the rest.

      Mom had laughed at my question and kissed me on the head.  Oh yes, Meghan will always look after you, too.

      And so, it was because of my autism that I went to a different school than the other kids on our street.

      I didn’t mind, and most days were calm with very little excitement.  Except for what happened yesterday.

      Some days, we stayed inside during our lunch break and played with the toys in the classroom. Tuesday was one of those days.  After we were done eating, Mrs. Warren excused us from our tables to go play.  I went directly to my cubby and pulled out a comic book from home, the pages worn and creased from the dozens of times I’d looked through it.

      I was just sitting down on the carpet when a foul scent wafted in my direction.  I wrinkled my nose and instinctively looked toward the open window, my eyes widening at what I spotted there.  Our classroom was on the second floor of the building, so the only things we ever saw outside were the trees at the edge of the lawn, the road beyond that and the birds that visited the feeders hanging in the oak tree nearby.  But it wasn’t a tree or a bird that I saw. 

      It was one of the ghoulies from my backyard.  But what was it doing here?  Ever since I was little, strange creatures that looked like half-rotten monsters had been showing up in my yard and the swamp behind it.  At first, they had frightened me, but I remembered Meggy talking about them before I started going to school, so I figured everyone saw them.  When my sister stopped talking about them, I thought they had gone away, but then they started showing up again.  I waited for Meghan to say something, but she never did, and so I didn’t either.  I learned to watch her carefully after

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