![]() The hobgoblins have the magic of the fey, and ‘baptize’ their victims, their exterior remaining forever a child’s, while inside they age. How can they survive in a world that could possibly search out and destroy them? Even though many people don’t believe they exist, they know something strange is going on in the woods. ![]() ![]() After a botched changeling attempt, their numbers begin to dwindle, and their home is destroyed. The hobgoblins have lived in the woods for hundreds of years, but their domain has shrunk over time as neighborhoods encroach on their territory. While another lives the life he should have, Aniday must learn the ways of the forest and how to survive among a band of wild children who are older than they look. As Henry Day grows up he is constantly reminded of his origins, while everyone around him is oblivious to his inner turmoil, his resentment that the hobgoblins have stolen his past. ![]() They are both interlopers in their respective worlds, the real Henry Day now known as Aniday, and the changling Henry Day being raised by parents not his own, his parents long deadĬhangling Henry Day was abducted 100 years previously, and spent the intervening years learning the ways of the hobgoblins, surviving the forest with eleven other children of various ages, waiting his turn until he could take the place of another child and return to the real world. When Henry Day was seven years old he was stolen by hobgoblins, one of their own changlings taking his place in the real world, while he joined the band of children living in the forest. ![]()
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