Prologue for Resurgence, book one, of the Cantre’r Gwaelod trilogy:

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‘It is time,’ sighed Anarawd.
‘Indeed, Husband: I hoped it would never come to this,’ Eleri replied mournfully.
They closed their eyes and concentrated on the words. They formed in the mind swirling, encroaching, pushing all thoughts out. The words were of anger, wrath and defiance. Words created in defence: as a last resort to defeat the Rammligr and save humanity. A protective shell enveloped them and they hovered into the sky.
The elderly couple started to rock in unison, murmuring, muttering words which hadn’t been uttered out loud for aeons. The couple started to shine like a beacon as the words tumbled from their now gaping mouths: words screeched and took a life of their own. Phantom like, the words punched through the lower atmosphere causing clouds to form. Tendrils of light enveloped the land and tickled the surface. The inhabitants looked up in dismay: they were going to miss Earth.
The layer of life blinked. The shell like land looked forlorn, bereft of the multitude of life that once graced it. The coexistence was no more. Hermetically sealed from Earth, the citizens of Cantre’r Gwaelod wailed. A sense of profound loss was felt.
The rain came. Beating, drum like, tearing away at the ground: Streams formed into Rivers; Rivers merged into pools; Pools became lakes and still it rained. The couple pulsated inside their protective cocoon which hung Jewell like over the engorged land. Trees were felled as the waters arose. Tsunamis formed and devoured the beautiful lands. Lightening revealed the growing ocean as the couple within their cocoon started to fade. Sadly and limply, they surveyed their land below: a grey white flecked ocean was in its place. Exhausted, they collapsed to the bottom of their shell, clinging on to each other. They wept for their lost land. They wept for Earth’s version of Cantre'r Gwaelod.
In the continental lands of Doggerland and Buddhiman Kee Bhoomi, senior Mages had uttered the same spell: Faerie was now on its own.

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