Sam Gordon is followed by someone dressed like a wizard. He figures the guy to be another San Francisco lunatic until the man meets Sam at his favorite café carrying on about time continuum portals. Assured of the man's insanity, Sam escapes out the back door, which drops him into a strange place.

In a land of green grass and no automobiles, Sam cannot find the door back to the café. He questions his sanity and sets out to find someone who can give him directions. When he is attacked by a swordsman on horseback, a beautiful young woman named Margot, intervenes. She speaks an archaic dialect of Anglo-Saxon — a language Sam didn't know until that moment. Sam travels with them to Camelot and finds himself in King Arthur's court. Working as a blacksmith and studying the druidic arts under Merlin's tutelage, Sam learns he must complete an unknown task before a portal can open to his own place and time.

Merlin's Apprentice is created by B. K. Kerley, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

Merlin's Apprentice

The castle was in chaos. People everywhere hurried on urgent business. Fletchers made arrows, cooks prepared hardtack and salt pork for the march, and wagons loaded with food, grain, and weapons rolled out to staging areas for the army. 


We learned that Mordred’s army in Normandy was preparing to cross the English Channel. Arthur said that we, like Mordred, had one hundred thousand troops and would ride out to meet him at a place of his choosing. That place would be Camlann, which would later be known as Salisbury.


Merlin and I prepared hundreds of pounds of black powder, but I still took time to work in the smithy. Part of me wanted to create another sword like Excalibur, but the other part felt it would diminish my crowning achievement by no longer having a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. Moreover, I didn’t have enough time. But, on the other hand, I had a good sword, which served me well, so I devoted my energies to something different.


Chapter 41