Marion and Kristoph’s weekend starts with the strongest hint yet about Kristoph’s mission on Earth. Again, the readers will mostly know this. But seeng it from his point of view is new. Kristoph’s resignation from the Celestial Intervention Agency as he decides he would rather be Professor de Leon, literature teacher, and pursue a relationship with Marion is dealt with in a few paragraphs.

Meanwhile, Marion is finding out a little more about the man who has so captivated her imagination. Her discovery of ‘Poetry of Southern Gallifrey’ in his library is the start of a voyage of discovery for her. Perhaps the fact that she can read the ‘foreign’ language should have been a clue that something odd was going on. But suspend disbelief and imagine that she was so captivated by the poetry that she didn’t wonder about it.

When Kristoph tells her it’s all right to read his books, that really is the start of him beginning to bring her into his great secret. He obviously wants to do so, but he has to be careful not to frighten her.

He has to be careful not to scare her away even by his ordinary courtship, of course, which is why the weekend away is actually quite a sudden and unexpected idea. He has only known her two weeks at this point, of course. But clearly she is ready to spend this private time with him. Their relationship is turning up a notch.

The route from Harrogate to Whitby is absolutely stunning, of course, taking in the North Yorkshire Moors and a great deal of very lovely north-east Yorkshire coastline from Filey, through Scarborough up to Whitby itself. It is the very place for a romantic twosome.

I started them off, though, in Knaresborough, simply because I wanted to get Knaresborough and the Petrifying Well into the story. It really is a fantastic place. It was a favourite place to visit on holiday when I was young. It is a beautiful town, and the legends of Mother Shipton’s Cave and the mysterious waterfall that turns things to stone are quite unique. Just the place for Marion and Kristoph to visit. Marion's wish at the wishing well, is, of course, destined to come out very nicely in a short while.

The fact that somebody from the summer school knows about them now is going to be a future problem, of course.

http://www.knaresborough.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knaresborough
http://www.mothershiptonscave.com/main.htm