Edie then follows and meets George and the Gunner in the parking garage the fact that she can see them surprises the Gunner, as normal humans cannot see moving statues. The gargoyle found Edie hiding from it, but due to the ran that began, the gargoyle was forced to return to its post. George is taken by the Gunner to a parking garage where they hide from a cat gargoyle that was searching outside for them. All statues act as they were made to act the human statues, known as "spits" have their own personalities while "taints" are made to be more animal-like and, oftentimes, hostile and dangerous. The statue then explains to George that the boy has entered another layer to the city of London, one where the statues are alive, and they interact and battle with each other. This bronze soldier, a part of the memorial, calls himself the Gunner. The statues chase George all the way to the Royal Artillery Memorial, where the boy is miraculously rescued by another moving statue. In his frustration, he knocks the head of a dragon sculpture from the outer wall of the museum.Īlmost immediately after he does this, George encounters various stone statues that come to life from the museum walls and begin moving. Instead of obeying his teacher, George walks outside of the museum. After a misunderstanding with his teacher in which he is accused of knocking down an exhibit, he is separated from the class and told to wait in isolation. The story begins with twelve-year-old George Chapman on a class field trip to London's Natural History Museum.
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