Their journey and their encounters in the amazing New World, where prophecies come true and past becomes future, are at the heart of this strange story of "coming home." Madauc, outlawed by his brothers, dreams of riches to be found in the legendary seven cities of Antillia over the sea's edge, though Dewi scarcely knows what he can hope to find there. At first he envies his long hair and exotic clothes- until he sees that they are wearing identical medallions and that the boy is his own double-his “doppelganger.” Envy turns to alarm and then panic when, accepting the boy's proffered medallion in exchange for his own, Dave finds that he has changed places with him and has been thrust eight hundred years back in time, to a castle in medieval Wales.Īt first he can think only of how he is to return home, but gradually his own past seems less and less real, and slowly he grows into this new self, becoming instead Dewi, the dreamer of adventure.ĭewi had his medallion from his father but now his father is dead and Dave/Dewi finds himself dog boy to the dispossessed prince, Madauc, “his” father's boyhood companion. It is after he finds a curious silver medallion in a cave along the Ohio River that Dave begins seeing the oddly dressed boy on the way to and from school.
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