![]() The effect was so startling that for a moment Will found himself wondering whether the hair was deliberately bleached - done on purpose to create astonishment and alarm.But the idea vanished as swiftly as it had come. But there was a quality of strangeness about him, as there had been about the dog, that tightened Will’s throat and caught him motionless in a wondering stare for this boy was drained of all colour, like a shell bleached by the summer sun. ![]() He had a schoolbag slung over one shoulder, and he seemed to be about the same age as Will. was dressed neatly in what looked like a school uniform: grey trousers, white shirt, red socks and tie. He senses who his friends and allies are, but the boy Bran, whose father works for Will’s Uncle David, was a bit of a mystery and, at first, Will doesn’t know if he likes him. ![]() Even from his first arrival, though, Will feels the Dark all around him, oppressing him, and making him even weaker than the illness has left him. When he recovers, Will is sent to relatives in Wales to recuperate and, hopefully, to regain his lost memory in order to retrieve the golden harp and release the sleepers, tasks he must complete in Wales, in the land of the Grey King. Book four in Susan Cooper’s series The Dark is Rising finds Will Stanton delirious with illness, an illness that steals from him the poem he was to remember with the clues for the next quest which must be completed by the youngest of the Old Ones - which is him. ![]()
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