sending had given her—Abhorsen’s Bridge.

    S realized sill ttle gate ugged at ed doeps carved into teps leading rigo the river.

    time, Sabriel didn’t ate. So ter sending and eps. t’s presence  ranger’s rank breat e, ts battering and destruction er roar of ters.

    teps led to t did not end tepping-stones leading out to the island.

    Sabriel eyed t ter. It  an alarming speed. tepping-stones s boisterous s and, even tc s of snow and ice.

    Sabriel cream le by, and pictured its slings ride over to be smas so far below.

    Ss place, and t of t be t  its , of t  sh.

    Ss skidded a little and  seady, bent over in a ing to rebalance, so t stone and ter t, and again, in a mad leapfrog the river.

    , er beopped and looked back.

    t cullis broken and mangled in its grip. te  t  surprising. Defeated, it il ter-spell reneself—er.

    till, but it cure couldn’t cross t made no attempt to do so. In fact, tared at it, t seemed to  t ent to . It ry, guarding  ing for someto o arrive . . .

    Sabriel suppressed a shudder and jumped on.

    t no of age leading up to a gate in te reetops rees, t.

    Birds flerees and totle birds launc  forget tall, flame-etcte of t, brooding on the ledge.

    earily, so t stone and collapsed on teps of tage. Even o a little slit directly to . tage loomed close, as so te and edly fell against it.

    te sco a paved courtyard, t, ty apples. to t door of t against s mouterpoint to te cat t lay coiled