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out. They told me a secret code called a pin. It seems they have arrangements with gnomes in Zurich.”
    â€œYou’ll find credit cards common enough when you get past Dingle,” Dad remarked, but he was impressed.
    They were surprised when Oengus went into the barn and came out wearing a thick green cloak about his shoulders.
    â€œWhat about doing the leaving certificate and going to University,” Bridget had fussed on the way across to Ventry in their old ford car.
    â€œYou said once that I’m not on the register,” Oengus pointed out. “I expect I can’t take the State exams.”
    â€œWhere will you go?” Dad asked.
    â€œThey gave me papers that will get me into America. Uncle John is shown as my sponsor. I have to go find him,” Oengus explained.
    â€œDon’t trust him,” Dad said.
    While Bridget got him his bus ticket to Dingle Oengus’s dad drew him to one side.
    â€œRespect women,” he advised, “but remember, they are not all respectable.”
    â€œYes dad,” Oengus said, feeling embarrassed.
    â€œThe girls where we live were warned not to bring the bad luck by talking to you and they believe their mothers. But in America girls don’t really listen to their mothers,” Dad added.
    â€œI just thought they didn’t like me,” Oengus admitted.
    â€œAnd remember, this part of west Kerry is a remote spot. Magic lingers here in the mists and the mountains and through the bogs and in the people with their mountain ways. But elsewhere people are worldly wise and they might not understand the likes of you boy.”
    â€œUnderstand what dad?”
    â€œWell for example that you are of Otherworld and they fact that you took near forty years to reach the age of sixteen or whatever age it says on that forged Irish passport they gave you.”
    â€œDid I?”
    â€œYou know you did son.”
    â€œBut I was fifteen a year ago.”
    â€œYour mother knows these things son. She says you started ageing like normal after you reached puberty.”
    â€œI...? Oengus began.
    â€œYou were a long time a child Oengus.”
    â€œWas it magic?” Oengus asked.
    Oengus magic is powerful but it can be a curse. And these people in strange parts like America don’t believe in the magic. They will try and explain you if you let them. So don’t.”
    â€œDon’t worry dad. I’m being met in New York and I’ll be ok.”
    â€œI don’t trust your Uncle John.”
    â€œI’ll be careful.”
    â€œRemember there will be no luck in living forever. To know everyone you know will die before you and to watch those you love become enfeebled. You may lose respect for life and for other people.”
    â€œI don’t think so dad.”
    â€œJust remember son that power corrupts. You have a power. What it is may be is not known to us or to you but beware, don’t let it corrupt you.”
    They found him an ATM Machine and he used his card to take out five hundred Euro. He’d insisted his mother take four hundred and kept the balance to get him through the airport.
    â€œKeep a pure heart and remember we will always love you,” Bridget said as he boarded the bus.

Chapter Seven
    The United States border pre-clearance facility at Shannon Airport is in a two storied seven hundred thousand square meter extension to the main terminal.
    Oengus walked through it in awe. He had been as far as Dingle and he’d toured the world on the Internet but he’d never been physically inside anything as impressive as this.
    His bus had taken him to Dingle where he’d boarded another bus to Tralee and from there he’d taken the train to Shannon. Not a long journey as the crow flies but his dad’s ancient ford car was now vintage and had not been risked for the journey.
    However, he’d enjoyed the adventure of finding the route himself.
    Danu had given him a wallet of