It is a year since Omri said goodbye to Little Bull, the toy Red Indian who came to life in the magic cupboard and sent him back to his own time Omri has never forgotten him, though, and finally yields to the temptation to see his tiny blood-brother again But when the cupboard door opens, Little Bull is slumped, unconscious, over his horse, two bullet wounds in his back As Omri tries to help him, he faces the terrifying responsibility of power - the power of life and death