The Creature in the Case
Autor: Garth Nix

Nicholas Sayre survived the terrible events of Abhorsen, but only barely. Now in Garth Nix's follow up short story Creature in the Case, Nick must face a new evil alone.

Six months after the near cataclysmic events of the final book in the Abhorsen trilogy, Abhorsen, Nicholas Sayre has had enough of convalescing in Ancelstierre and is keen on returning to the Old Kingdom to explore the changes that being the host for Orannis’ dark essence has wrought on his body, and the connection it has given him to the Old Kingdom's free magic and Charter.
Finally agreeing, Nick’s uncle sets Nick just one condition. He must spend the weekend in a country house and mingle with the guests staying there. This seems simple enough, until Nick realizes that a creature from the Old Kingdom is being held there, a dormant monster that requires just one spark of magic to be reanimated, and thanks to Orannis, Nick‘s blood is perhaps the richest source that it could wish for.
Nicholas Sayer is a Different Man in The Creature in the Case

Exclusive new adventure set in the Old Kingdom, set approximately six months after the events in ABHORSEN. Nicholas Sayre is still recuperating from the injuries he received at the hands of the Destroyer. But after several idle months in Ancelstierre, he is desperate to return to the Old Kingdom, so when the opportunity arrives to actually DO something, he accepts like shot. As a favour to his Uncle Edward, the Chief Minister of Ancelstierre, he travels to spend the weekend in a remote country house, the home of a family which would make a good political alliance. That seems easy enough, till he discovers that the house holds many secrets, and the worst of them is a relic of the Old Kingdom, too far from the Wall for any spark of its magical life to reignite. Unless someone finds a way to unleash its power!

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