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"It’s the castle where herfrom his belt and wiped soie "We made spiders and Wolves out of fire to protect your father!" There was nothe pride in his voice

"But all the saht he wasn’t safe in the castle" Resa’s voice sounded accusing: You can’t protect him; in fact, none of you can protect him He’s on his own

"The Castle in the Lake" The Black Prince spoke its name as if he did not particularly like Violante’s idea, either "There are s," added Gecko Theon his shoulder It was a skinny bird, and it stared at Meggie as if it would like to peck out her eyes

"What kind of songs?" Resa’s voice was husky with fear

"Oh, ghost stories, that’s all Fanciful nonsense!" Fenoglio pushed past Resa

Despina was clinging to his hand "The Castle in the Lake was abandoned long ago, so people fill it with stories, but that’s all they are

"How reassuring!" The glance that Elinor cast Fenoglio loomynonstop about the cold, the crying children, or the stench of the bear Most of the time he sat behind a wall of stones he had built in the darkest corner of the cave, quarreling with Rosenquartz Only Jvo and Despina could get a smile out of him and Darius, who had joined the old man as soon as they had arrived at the cave and, as he helped Fenoglio to build his wall, started ti hiiants live? Do water-nys?

What kind of country lies beyond the ht questions, for Fenoglio didn’t lose patience with him as he had with Orpheus

The Castle in the Lake

Fenoglio shook his head when Meggie went to hiliness was taking her father "It wasn’t arus Just scenery! Read er ever lets it out of his hands again, that is! If you ask h we still don’t see terms After all, I wrote it! But there we are At least Orpheus doesn’t have it anyer had passed on Inkheart long ago, but Meggie kept that knowledge to herself, for Farid had asked her to

He had handed it over to her e behind him to steal it, just as he had back in the other world "Dustfinger says it will be safest with you, because you knoerful the words in it are," he had murmured

"The Black Prince doesn’t understand that But keep it hidden and let nobody know you have it! Orpheus h, that he won’t look for it in your hands"

Resa had taken the book only with some reluctance, and finally she hid it in the place where she slept Meggie’s heart beat faster as she took it out frolio’s book in her hands since Mortola had given it to her in Capricorn’s arena to read the Shadow into being It was a strange feeling to open it now that she was in the world it described, and for aaround her The rocky ground where she was sitting, the blanket under which her mother slept, the white ice- as they ran after ithad all that really come into existence between these covers? The book seeless compared to the es and a dozen pictures not half as good as those that Balbulus painted, all in a silvery-green linen binding Yet it wouldn’t have surprised Meggie to find her own naes, or the nah, no, her father bore another naie had never had the chance to read Fenoglio’s whole story Where was she to begin now? Was there a picture of the Castle in the Lake? She was quickly leafing through the pages when she suddenly heard Farid ‘s voice behind her