Have you ever written a cliffhanger and then not known how to get out of it yourself? Well I did that but it's still here finally :D

Disclaimer: Garth Nix owns all the good stuff yadda yadda yadda (But I own the really evil stuff like Reece muahahaha)

FLAWLESS EVIL

Revealing a Secret

The darkness parted slightly and two people fell through, Kaddison was here and Reece was glad, the boy wasted no time in rushing over to Reece where he embraced him quickly before turning back to look at the second person who had fallen through. This girl, as Reece saw her to be, was wearing the outfit of an Abhorsen. Carefully he watched her, he could swear that there was some other being with her but it seemed little more than a darkness and he could not distinguish it in the low light that bathed the ninth precinct.

Slowly she stood to face them and Reece frowned, she seemed far too young to be an Abhorsen but yet she wore the uniform and the bells. He began to walk in a circle around her, keeping a good distance.

When it got to the point that she could no longer keep an eye on him and Kaddison together she shouted, "Stop! What do you want and why am I here?"

Reece blinked. She wasn't here deliberately? Last time he checked people couldn't just fall all the way to the ninth gate by accident… Cautiously he stepped towards her, unsure of how dangerous she was, no room for mistakes in the ninth precinct.

"I did not bring you here, in truth I do not know why I am here, but I suspect you know someone who does." Reece watched the darkness that clung to Lirael, his mind ticking over; it was the only obvious explanation.

Lirael looked confused until she heard a whisper in her ear, "Just go along with what I do." She was surprised and completely in the dark until she suddenly felt a weight she had not realised existed lift from her back and drop into the ankle-deep water with a splash. When she looked the delicate, fluffy white form of Mogget the cat stood there.

Reece's face quite quickly went from a satisfied smirk to a wary glare. He began to walk slowly back around towards Kaddison, always followed by the cats great eyes.

Mogget's scathing tones cut through the relative calm, "Stop pacing boy, you've been trouble enough as it is so you can bloody well stand still."

Reece froze, if there was one thing in the world he feared, it was Mogget. He knew what that cat really was, a free magic being of horrendous power. His ice blue eyes bored into the cat's watching its every twitch and blink. Mentally he prepared himself for any magic tricks the cat might play on him, as a result he was unprepared when the cat came out with a verbal trick.

"If the parents beat a child where does he run away to?" Mogget's eyes did not flicker or blink.

Reece answered, "To the barbaric north of course, everyone runs to the north because the sn…" Reece stopped and his eyes widened, "No! Danm you, Mogget you stupid cat!" Reece went to lunge forward but in an instant Mogget was no longer the innocent white cat, he had exploded into a towering creature of white burning free magic.

"To you sir it is Yrael." The creature lunged and Reece screamed his frustration as he turned and ran, a wave of free magic rising up underneath him and collecting Kaddison before it plunged backwards though the gate on its way back towards life leaving Lirael with the now harmless Mogget alone in the ninth precinct, now armed with the knowledge of exactly where to find Reece.

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Back in Life, Sabriel awoke with the feeling of death strong from the next room. Rushing out of bed pausing only to grab her sword she burst into Lirael's room just as she returned to life, the ice crystals breaking off and shattering on the hard floor as she sat up in bed.

Rushing to her side Sabriel looks at her, eyes full of concern completely ignoring Mogget. "Are you ok dear? What were you doing in death in the middle of the night?" Sabriel's questioning voice was layered with all sorts of emotions.

Lirael just looked blankly at her for a moment before understanding dawned, "Oh, never mind, that's not important. What is important is that I know where the white-mancer is!"

Sabriel was completely non-plussed by Lirael's bizarre behaviour until what she was saying sunk in properly, "Quickly we must tell your father."

And that's all folks... not for the story just for the chapter. I know it's sort of a weird ending but this one was always going to be a little short.

I have 3 whole days now though on my own to write whenever I want so with luck I can get the next chapter up soon and I can tell you you'e gonna love it. ;)

Anyway R&R as usual. Love you guys who read this story. :D