ld  t summoned ion and ect   ansill Sabriel o return to Life.

    “he bell.

    t ans t  unexpected. Apart from ing, sions.

    Sabriel  really sure if tation  of ective magic left by her.

    “I don’t ime,” Sabriel continued.

    “I’d love to ask about . . . o at t, I need to kno to Fat . . . I mean Barhedrin Ridge.”

    tened, sures in  taken herself.

    “Go to t begins till it reac t be any cloud. Look to t red star, Uallus, near t of north.

    Follo star till you come to a road t runs from sout to nort. take t road for a mile to t, till you reacer Stone be. A patone leads to tely nortake t ends in a door in to Mosrael. Beyond tunnel, sloping sharply upwards.

    Beyond tunnel lies Ab tarry, do not stop, no matter w happens.”

    “ts.

    “Could you also . . .”

    Sopped as t of ed, “Go!”

    At time, Sabriel felt tection around antly, surned on  o t almost seemed to strengt hen fell away before her urgency.

    Sabriel reac of o Life.

    For a second, sed, suddenly freezing again and tted. A grinning, corpse-like creature  stepping ts arms reaco embrace ing out of a mouturally wide.

    to find ter Mage’s spirit ection. ttle, but it ed over and  see ter marks t danced beneat  a sno very fortunate, particularly as t blazed ill victim icularly young and strong. till and ed arms reaco embrace Sabriel’s neck.

    Just as ed fingers stretced top-t t ing Arts and, later, lost . raigo tent and t ripped to eight inches of air