Inkheart Page #6

I have Mo's gift.

I can do it.

Well, then you could read me back.

"One moonlit night...

...The Shadow

turned on his despicable..."

Make him kill Capricorn.

Make The Shadow do it.

Food for the little princess.

Capricorn wants you to have

your strength for tonight.

You should stay.

We're telling ghost stories.

Right. You don't like

ghost stories, do you?

I'll give you ghost stories, you...!

Get it off of me!

My pouch!

You don't have your good luck charm.

Give me that back!

Why don't you come in and get it?

What are you doing?

Someone's got to get us out,

and I don't think it'll be the writer.

You give that back to me.

You be careful.

Maybe I don't need my good luck.

Time to finish what we started.

By the bones of the dead man

in this coffin, I curse you.

Don't you say that. Take that back!

May his spirit haunt your every step.

You take that back!

- Open this gate.

- Hurry up. Quickly.

- Open the gate.

- Come on.

Let me out.

- Which one?

- Help! The prisoners are escaping!

The fire! Use your fire!

Come on, hurry up.

Help! The prisoners are escaping!

The prisoners are escaping!

Come on!

Come on.

The prisoners are escaping! Help!

Help! Quick!

I'm sorry, I can't.

- I can't, I'm sorry.

- Stay!

Don't go.

You don't have to be selfish

just because that's how I wrote you!

You're more than that!

You said so yourself!

Stay and help us!

Help!

The prisoners are escaping! Help!

Check all the courtyards!

Let me out!

Don't leave! Come back!

Oh, God.

This is quite possibly the most stupid

thing you've ever done in your life, Elinor.

There are a bunch of

murderous thugs up there.

You think you're going to just walk in

and tell them what to do?

Very likely to listen to you, aren't they?

Silly old bookworm

with your head in the clouds.

- Thank you.

- You're alive.

Thank you.

All right. All right.

All right, that's enough.

Did you find them?

Resa, Meggie, how are they?

- They're fine.

- Good.

For now.

- But Capricorn has a copy of the book.

- He what?

He kept one secretly.

That was always his plan, to have

The Shadow read out of the book.

I can't read The Shadow out.

That would kill us all.

He doesn't need you anymore.

He found someone else.

Meggie.

Meggie?

Having writer's block?

Maybe I can help.

Yeah, that's right.

You want to be a writer, don't you?

- You say that as if it's a bad thing.

- No, no. Just a lonely thing.

The world you create on the page...

...seems more friendly and alive

than the world you live in.

And you wish

you could be there instead.

You're a clever girl, Meggie.

I couldn't have hoped for a finer young

lady to be shut up in a crypt with...

...whilst awaiting my execution.

Now, I haven't really got

what I need yet...

...but it's very close.

Come on, feed us.

Blast, they're early. Why are they early?

This is most inconvenient.

Put one here somewhere. The words

have to be perfect or it won't work.

They have to be written by the writer.

It has to sound like lnkheart.

Ah. Here it is.

Here what is?

Something for her to

remember me by after I'm gone.

Aw.

I don't think much

of your crude scribblings, old man.

Well, you are my crude scribblings,

Magpie...

...so I'd be careful

what I scrumple up if I were you.

- Where are you taking her?

- To put on her party frock.

Oh, don't worry, you're invited

to the feast as well.

We wouldn't eat without you.

In fact, you're the main course.

The Shadow will be feeding on you

and that maid later tonight...

...so rest assured

somebody will be back to fetch you.

You wanted to be alone,

didn't you? Well, here you are.

Alone in the wilderness.

Mosquito bites and blisters and...

Oh, God.

And do you have a plan? No, no plan.

Just rent a motorbike, find a map.

We'll figure it out when we get there.

- This is the plan.

- Good.

You use your fire

and create a distraction.

I can set fire to the castle.

I can help too.

Don't get in my way.

When Capricorn's men

try to put the fire out...

-... I move in, I rescue Meggie and Resa.

- But we're outnumbered.

- And they have these...

- Guns.

That's why we disguise ourselves

as Black Jackets. Let's go.

Well, come on, then.

This really is a beautiful little village.

But it'll be nice to have something

a bit bigger.

Stretch out.

Expand my kingdom's borders.

That's why I need The Shadow.

And I don't want anyone else escaping.

If you don't stop shaking,

I'm going to stick you with a pin.

Do you honestly expect me to read

an entire army out of this book?

- Do you have a better idea?

- No.

Thought not.

Get a move on.

Go on.

Yes.

Come on! Come on!

Go on.

Forward.

Don't try anything funny or

you'll never see your mother alive again.

Please.

The time has come to be reunited

with our old friend!

Well, tie them up, then.

Good evening.

Do you want to get out of here?

Then you're going to have to help me.

lnkheart! Inkheart! Inkheart!

Read it!

Read the words!

lnkheart!

Say the words!

You're very good at that.

Doesn't mean we're friends or anything.

- Read it!

- Read it!

lnkheart!

Read it!

I got it. Here.

"Capricorn led an army of brutal men...

...who struck fear in the hearts and minds

of all those they came in contact with.

- Whenever they passed by...

- Resa.

...people closed their doors

and hid with their children.

But of all the villains

lurking in the Wayless Wood...

...the one most feared and reviled

was known simply as The Shadow."

The Shadow.

"Made from the ashes

of Capricorn's victims...

...The Shadow

was immortal and invulnerable...

...and as pitiless as his master.

His fingers and even his breath

brought death...

...scenting his way

like a hound on the trail."

"He appears only

when Capricorn calls him...

...rising from the ground,

a faceless and fiery beast.

- No. Stop reading. Stop.

- Eager to consume his next victim."

Stop reading, Meggie.

Meggie, stop reading!

Beautiful.

Feast.

Mum!

Shadow!

- Shadow!

- Toto! Good boy.

Mum!

Feast.

"Yet one starlit night,

The Shadow heard a different voice.

The voice of a girl, and when

she called his name, he remembered."

Take that book!

"He remembered all those

from whose ashes he was made.

All the pain and all the grief.

The Shadow remembered,

and he was determined to take revenge.

Revenge on those whose cruelty

was the cause of all this misfortune."

- Make her stop.

- "Shadow went to his master...

...and reached out to him

with ashen hands."

- That's not right!

- Take it away!

That's not the book.

Those aren't the real words.

Stop her. Somebody stop her reading!

- Stop her!

- Meggie, watch out!

Mo!

Mo!

- Give that here!

- Give it back!

What a pleasant turn of events.

Silvertongue,

you're just in time for dinner!

No!

Not my castle!

Attack!

Attack!

- Get off!

- Get out of my way!

Resa.

No! Get off!

What...! No!

You think these misfits can conquer me?

Go! Devour her!

- You'll have to get past me first!

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