Chapters 26-30 Summary

Chapter 26 - Shivers Down the Spine and a Foreboding

Mo devises a plan that will allow Fenoglio to see Dustfinger, but only from a distance. The old man will walk his grandchildren home to their mother's, lingering in the village square, where Mo left the car. Mo will then return to Dustfinger and tell him that the author did not have a copy of the book.

Dustfinger notices that Mo looks guilty as he approaches the car. Mo tells Dustfinger that Fenoglio has no copies of Inkheart. Dustfinger knows that something is up. He asks Meggie if she has learned his fate in the book and can tell by her reaction that she has. Meggie tells him he cannot go back into the book. Fenoglio, observing all of this from a distance, decides to come over. Dustfinger pulls out Basta's knife...