Chapter 4 Merlin runs away
‘Come here, boy!’ the enchantress cries.
‘I need to run!’ Merlin thinks. In his head, he sees a hare. Then, suddenly, he is a hare.
‘Aha!’ he thinks. ‘So now I can change into different animals.’
Merlin runs away into the forest. ‘I can easily run faster than Ceridwen now,’ he thinks. But when he looks behind him, he sees a big dog. It is running after him, and its angry mouth is open. ‘Oh, no!’ he thinks. ‘Ceridwen can change into different animals, too.’
Merlin moves quickly through the trees. But he can hear Ceridwen behind him. She is coming nearer. Just then, he arrives at a lake. ‘I need to be a fish,’ he thinks. Suddenly, he’s a long, dark fish. He moves fast through the cold water of the lake.
‘I’m all right now,’ he thinks. But when he looks back, an otter is coming through the water behind him. ‘Ceridwen’s an otter now!’ he thinks.
So he changes into a little bird, and goes far up into the sky. But soon he hears an angry cry behind him. Now a big eagle is coming after him.
‘Ceridwen again!’ Merlin thinks. He moves here and there in the sky, but he can’t lose the eagle. Just then, Merlin sees a hunter far down in the forest, and there’s a sudden noise – ‘Whoosh!’ An arrow hits Ceridwen. She falls to the ground near her house. Morfran runs to her dead body.
‘Merlin, you demon!’ he cries angrily. ‘One day you must die for this!’
