Will goes through it and enters a great hall. The white horse takes Will to a hill with a freestanding door that seemingly leads to nowhere. The white horse saves him, and the Walker runs away. When Will tries to get answers from the Walker, the Rider attacks. The old man from the day before is the Walker. A white horse allows Will to carry him, when Will asks, and Will instinctively knows that he must find someone called the Walker. Will narrowly escapes when the Rider tries to take him. Will meets a Rider, but refuses the Rider’s food and to sit on his black horse. Trees have replaced buildings, and roads are now only tracks. On his birthday, Will wakes up to find that his surroundings are different. He does not offer an explanation but gives Will an iron circle divided equally into four sections by a cross and tells him to keep it with him at all times. On the day before his birthday, an old man hides and watches him, and a neighbor, Farmer Dawson, warns Will about a man called the Walker and impending danger. Will Stanton, the youngest of 10 children, will celebrate his 11th birthday on Midwinter’s Day.
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