Book Six: Chapter 27

“Aha!” Death’s voice was filled with glee, and Lily looked up to see that he had pulled a large red velvet coat from under the seat. He belted it over his robes, and the fabric draped awkwardly, the cut designed for a much thicker figure. “I knew he would have a spare!”

“Why would...y’know what? It doesn’t matter. We need to get this somewhere safe, but where?” She looked at Beth, still frozen in place. “Do you think we need to take her with us?”

“Ms. Holly said that time is stopped everywhere but the North Pole and where the sleigh is. Once we leave, the house will be safe.”

“But that also means that those creatures must have come through when the sleigh did. So why didn’t they do anything?” It occurred to her that they had only revealed themselves after everyone else had left. If that was the case, then was it just the three of them? Or were there more? Were those things now time locked outside the sleigh’s range, or was there some other magic at work here?