Then, as if all that were not enough, her father has to appear too and join in the misery. Look me in the eye, Readers all, and tell me you didn’t shed real tears when Audrey at last brings her beloved back, if not to life, then at least to the light. Boy oh boy, Robin, way to rip out our hearts and chuck them across the room! As with poor Dilly-O’s demise, it’s the little details that get me the ‘gouts of black blood’ matting down his hair the empty eyes where once a mischievous warmth burned the gleaming, rat-like fangs, harking back to how near he came in life to becoming one of those murdering wretches. To this day, I maintain that the Green came to Audrey’s aid in those crucial minutes, just as, I surmise, the divinity of the Heavenly Lady came to Oswald during his final charge. For a fairy-light mouse in a howling snowstorm with the surface of the dome cracking and quaking beneath her, it’s nothing short of supernatural. For a human, that climb would be barely-achievable with proper ropes in good weather. I’ve been to Greenwich, I’ve seen that dome. As the world darkens for the last time, Audrey embraces her destiny and makes her tall and dangerous stand.įollowing Hathkin’s sacrifice and the loss of the last scrap of support our heroine had, there’s that long, bitter, unrelenting climb over the Observatory dome. The Book of Hrethel has failed even the ancient wisdom of the bats, who have seen their fair share of strife in their time, has proved to be no more than a vain hope quickly vanquished. We are about to have a final reckoning with The Final Reckoning, and it is monumental.įrom the outset, things look bleak. If I had to choose one chapter to set to music, to write a script for, to bring to life on the stage or in film, or even animate to nightmarish effect for the trauma and amazement of the young viewers of a children’s television channel, it would be this. We have faced the Midwinter Death and soared high through lightning to glory undying. ‘I come to call down my destiny – and it is tall and dangerous!’Īufwader’s Thoughts: We have come this far.
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