Virtually There

“How is meeting like this any different from what you do on that looking-glass contraption?”
Efan pointed at my iPad. It was Mrs. Cadwaladr all over again.
“I talk to real people on this. There is a live person on the other end being broadcast across the ocean.”
Efan was unimpressed. “A mere show of lights and sounds. I’m talking to you from another side as well. You see me. You hear me. None of us is corporal, and yet you dismiss me. In this moment, how am I any less real?"
He had me there. Rather than admitting defeat to a 19th century specter, I dodged the subject.
“Why are you here?”

Darwyn Jones is a typical teen-aged girl who does well in school and who dreams of being a YouTube celebrity one day. The most immediate drama in her life is the bombshell that her mom recently dropped on her: the two of them are temporarily moving from their comfort zone in Vancouver to a rural town in northern Wales so Gwyn can finally complete work on their family tree. For six months, Darwyn's only connection to her network of family and friends back home will be virtual. What discoveries will the Old World offer her? How will Darwyn adjust to small-town living? Where will Derw Roberts and Efan Llewellyn fit in to her new country life? Will she find the lost gold that keeps local gossip-mongers busy? The answers are virtually in front of you - Virtually There.