"Are you alright?!" [willhiggsburycarter]
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âQuite so, Iâm afraid.â Wendy looked herself over, taking in the damage done to her by the hounds. She only had a few bites and scratches, though Abigail had unfortunately been returned to a mere bud that now lay on the ground. Wendy picked it up and turned to the stranger. âMight I ask your name, sir? And, if youâve any healing supplies to spare, if you wouldnât mind.â
Wendy met his eyes with the same grey of her own. She knew no Wilsa, nor Higgsbury. But William? It was a familiar name, spoken rarely by her family and always with an air of darkness Wendy never fully understood.
And Maxwell? The fallen magician who dragged her to this hell in the first place? Wendy had thought the same of him, that feeling kinship. Not a warm feeling, no. Just a feeling.
Had her father any brothers?
Perhaps just one.
And what of this young man before her? Her cousin, if it should all be trueâdid he carry the same treachery of his father? Or the bitter cruelty of hers?
Wendy shrank away at the possibility.
âI think my father had a brother, once,â she said slowly, taking in the revelation still.
  âMy father told me he a brother, too,â Will replied, his voice quiet. âJack... I have never met him. They both immigrated to America from England before my father came to this Island, just like my mother.â
  He was starting to feel dizzy. This was starting, amazing, and honestly, pretty exciting to him.
  If heâd found family out here, then that meant there was someone he shared a connection with, someone who would make him a little less alone. Yes, of course he had his parents, and he could get along quite well with some of the people who were brought to the Island from time to time by Charlie, but he had for company neither another member of his family nor a person so close to his own age.
  Certainly he was not pleased that the young lady should be trapped here the same way he was, but since she was here, it was reassuring and compelling both to think she could be his cousin.










