The group returns to the windmill where Jack and Alexis open a door back to Earth and Sumi, Christopher, Cora and Kade leave. Jack pushes Jill off the parapets and they all head down to the halls where Gideon's army has won. The skeletons get there and hold Jill, letting Jack break her glasses to conduct lightning, letting the twins switch bodies. The Master arrives and some of them fight him back whilst Christopher plays his flute so that some skeletons start making their way to them, Jack and Jill have a conversation. They go up to the parapets, where Jill is.

They depart for the village directly, see a storm brewing and go into the Master's house through persuading Mary to let them in. They manage to get an army as well as Cora and Kade back in exchange for Jack staying in the Moors. They reach, Jack talks with Gideon and later the Drowned Gods through Cora. On the way, whilst crossing a bridge, Kade falls so that the rest can cross. Meanwhile, Kade fails at catching Cora and watches as she falls into the Drowned Gods' territory. They leave the windmill without Alexis with 2 horses, Pony and Bones, to go to the Drowned Gods to either bargain for Cora back or help. Bleak's headless body and Jack and Alexis preserve it for later resurrection whilst Sumi and Christopher get into some Moors appropriate clothing. On the way to the windmill, Cora runs off to the Drowned Gods and Kade goes after her.Īt the windmill, they find Dr. Jack, Alexis, Christopher, Cora, Kade and Sumi leave through the door. Kade and Sumi alert Eleanor West on the circumstances and let her know/ seek permission to go on a quest.

Sumi communicates with Alexis through ASL. Alexis is temporarily unable to speak and puts Jack on a table. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome.Įleanor West’s “No Quests” rule is about to be broken.Ī door appears in Christopher's room and Alexis exits it, carrying Jack, who is in Jill's body.

Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. When Jack left Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister-whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice-back to their home on the Moors.īut death in their adopted world isn’t always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her.

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire