He stared at Weavger as uneasiness rolled over him.

Peter had always had an overactive imagination for as long as he could remember, and although other people say that they daydream, it seemed clear to Helen and the school faculty that with him it was more of a problem, and it needed to be dealt with as soon as possible. So the school principal set an appointment for Peter to see the councilor, Alice Tweak, whom Peter liked, and for years she worked with him to help him with his problem.

At first Helen did not like it, for she herself knew what it was like to have an overactive imagination and also knew what it was like for other children to know. She had found out firsthand, and that was the last thing that she wanted Peter to experience, as children could be very cruel. Seeing Peter at seven years of age, she realized that he was very like her, for now he was as pale, thin, and angelic in looks as her.

Every one of the Wizards and Witches privileged enough to get permission to visit the Queen and the young King said that he looked a little like his dad, too. Helen didn’t see it; however, every time someone who knew John supposedly saw this likeness, it almost always led to the odd story being told of John’s adventures with his group of friends. Most of these stories were told by Berlanin, who knew all of them, as he was present for almost all of the adventures. Any he did miss were told to him in the form of a play illustrated by those in the group who were there, as was done when any of them had missed out.

However, all of the stories had to be altered in some way so as not to alert Peter (who loved to hear them) of the existence of the world Dorminya.

Helen loved to hear them, too, though she thought he was too young and it could give him ideas. Nevertheless, she let him hear them, for she knew it wasn’t right to keep them from him and make him leave the room so the grownups could hear the memories of their old friend and loved one.

For Berlanin, though, it was mostly guilt that made him tell Peter, as all of the old group – Jastark, Neusod, Berlanin, Veris, Jebut, and Shilta – all held a secret they had all sworn never to reveal. It had to do with the real reason John was caught Phazing out of the Normal World and back into Dorminya. It was actually John who made them vow not to tell friend or family and hold the secret until the day they died. John knew that his life in that world was over, and he knew that if the secret got out, his friends would also pay the consequences. So he took the fall and also made his friends promise they would not waste their lives but do their best to rise as far as they could to make his sacrifice mean something and to make him proud.

Berlanin alone felt the guilt of what happened, and he needed someone to confess the secret too. He didn’t care about keeping it from Peter. Now there were only two of the group still living, himself and the Wicca Shilta. Besides, things had changed. The Council was not as powerful as it had once been, and he was now the deputy Grand Wizard. So he had decided to tell Peter the truth in Dorminya after he had been told everything else.

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Helen had told her friends about the principal wanting Peter to see the school councilor and had voiced her fears to them also. “I don’t know what to do. I’m afraid that this woman might mess with his head and something might bring back his memories,” said Helen.

“There’s no need to worry about that. Only other spells can break down the ones I’ve used. She won’t be able to do anything to disrupt them,” said Delsani.

“I still don’t want him to go,” said Helen. “I don’t want him to think he’s different than other kids.”

“I hate to be the one to break it to you, but I don’t think you could find a child as different as Peter if you tried,” said Henkot sarcastically and truthfully.

“I think you should go back to this principal and ask him if there’s another way of dealing with this. I really think that would be the best way to confront this,” said Berlanin.

However, when Helen went to the principal, he said. “That is the best way of dealing with it, Mrs. Lince.

“Please call me Helen.”

“Helen,” repeated the principal. “There is only one other way. And this is what Miss Tweak has told me. If Peter’s daydreaming problem was not dealt with, he would have to be moved to a different school, a special school that would better suit his needs. For the truth is, the teachers have so many students to teach that they don’t have the time to concentrate on a single student with Peter’s problem. And even if you did decide that you wanted to place him in such a school, Councilor Tweak would still need to see him at least once to be sure it would the right move before going ahead with it.”

After that Helen agreed for the meeting to go ahead, but only on the condition that she also attend.

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For a while Peter was making a lot of progress but still had a long way to go. He had just started and was happy with his teachers, at least at first, for after only a week at senior school, it started, Weavger was losing patience at Peter’s inability to finish all of his work in time, even sometimes not having any work at all to hand in due to his daydreaming. And for this Helen had been called in god knows how many times, however, not because of Peter’s daydreaming, but because of Weavger. For Councilor Tweak had personally told all of the teachers of Peter’s lack of concentration and had been asked by her and told by the new principal, Warren Holmes, to have a bit of patience and help him as much as possible if he was lagging behind, and give him a little more time and space also, if possible.

All the times that Helen had visited the school about the bullying teacher, she went to the principal knowing that he would want to resolve this as soon as possible and thinking that Weavger might finally be put in his place. However, she was wrong. Nothing, as far as she could see, had been done to stop the bullying, and in fact, it had triggered more bullying from students, for they had seen the way Mr. Weavger treated Peter and thought that it would be funny to do so as well. This gang was led by none other than Jerry Walters, who would be in later times Wile E. Coyote, Peter’s best and most trusted friend.