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Prologue

        It tle more to t t    a cloud in sig, and a steady rain    begun to fall, ing faster tents could be raised.

        t    over to turned face belo in a cloud of    tient.

        traig single movement telling toaggered into t camp    on to t    even as tically small form beside t ss ill.

        “too?” asked one of tcer fresism.”

        up to brusopped, as a pale    motion.

        “Peace!” said a calm voice. “I wish you no harm.”

        te s grip and tepped into t. tc    cer marks, os and s, did not relax.

        trode touro face tco reveal taken pat, for    e.

        “I am called Ab ripples t    a large and o a pool of stagnant er. “And tism tonight.”

        ter Mage looked doravelers, our life lived u is often h, lord.”

        “Not as I do,” replied Abe face kled at te teet yet dead.”

        tried to meet Ab faltered and looked a ill a woman said, “So.

        It is easily done. Sign t Leovi’s Ford. Join us when you are finished here.”

        ter Mage ined , and ted ao pack up tance of o move, but filled er reluain near Abs, and unspoken fears.

        to lay t. You will be needed.”

        t it illness, could be merely sleeping. S te.

        “If ter does not—” began t Aberrupted.

        “Let us see er wills.”

        t the child again and sighed.

        took a small bottle from    aloft, g out a c t er; o listed all t lived ether.

        As    came to ttle, pulsing . ter . ouctle to to t over the child.

        A great flas t cried: “By ter t binds all thee—”

        Normally, ts of the name. here, only Abhorsen spoke, and he said: “Sabriel.”

        As tered t’s foreer ed tism.

        “But . . . but ser Mage, gingerly touake sure truly gone.

        no ansaring across t Abaring at— did not see them.

        Sloo rise from otled to ting to get a nooo afraid to run.

        he child g, which was good.

        If s gateri    preparations, and a subsequent dilution of .

        t rong, but    pools and eddies t    ers leac, but rong, so took only t tance.

        o listen, and ened fore to pass.

        t Gate , o to, and topped. t yet passed t only because somet anding t of ters, was a se.

        It    s burning o see eyes, and tid stenc—a enc relieved the river.

        Abc    restless, and it squirmed toure, seeking a mot, but it only self, as if t, or caustic.

        Sl it. But thery voice, like a snake on gravel.

        “Spirit of your spirit, Ab spell me wake e, as her has already gone.”

        Abion, and replaced t Gate. o assist you so far?”

        Kerrigor smiled widely, and Ab a glimpse of fires burning deep inside h.

        “One of t unskilled.    realize it ure of an exc suffit for me to pass t portal. But now, you o help me.”

        “I, we?”

        “Yes,”    if you    the child . . .”

        o to tream and,    jerk, le fists reac to gatuff of Kerrigor like t, tried to detay igo overuse rengtantly caug Abche river and Kerrigrasping hands.

        Stepping back,    so it sou true, and tting, alive. Kerrigor flinc to t e.

        “Some fool , as took ers seady flow.

        Abared at te for a time, t,    looked at tared back at g his own.

        Already, t t er mark    ained     had so burned Kerrigor.

        S tle, and Ab a smile tilting till smiling, urned, and began to te t urn to their living flesh.

        t sed before Ab to pick    crackled on ter a birth.

        “ared at e as he.

        “As you    is pertle cold for her—”

        ured at t roared into life, t melting at oo steam.

        “t ill m,” said Abhorsen.

        “take o my house. I shall have need of a nurse.ill you e?”

        tated, and looked te, o meet    ttle girl bawling in her arms.

        “You are . . . you are . . .” whe midwife.

        “A neancer?” said Ab. I loved t s. Sabriel is our c see the kinship?”

        t    forook Sabriel from . tened and, in a few seds, was asleep.

        “Yes,” said ter Sabriel. But you must find a -nurse . . .”

        “And I daresay muc my    a place for—”

        ter Mage cleared , and moved around the fire.

        “If you seek a man er,” antly, “I so serve, for I s o leave my fellow wanderers.”

        “Per o,” replied Ab a sudden t. “I    to travel, and t of t    felt t of my feet.”

        “Your tle, t was no longer cold.

        “Yes,” said Ab not of t raise to rest. And t    rest, I bind—or try to. I am Abhorsen . . .”

        t e of surprise, “Father of Sabriel.”
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