Meanwhile, Hentzau, the Goyl King's right hand, leads a group of Goyl soldiers to find Will, whose skin is turning to jade. Jacob assumes the Red Fairy will be able to break the curse because she is the Dark Fairy's sister. In another attempt to save his brother, Jacob decides to return to the Red Fairy, whom he had been enamored with for over a year, in the hope that he can convince her to help break the curse. In the morning, Will's condition has not changed the berries did not work. Jacob and Fox fight The Tailor, with Will and Clara inside the gates, which The Tailor cannot enter, but Jacob is wounded on the shoulder during the fight. When they arrive, they realize that they're being pursued by The Tailor, a creature that gets its name from how it tailors its clothing from the skin of its victims. With time running out, Jacob, Will, Clara and Jacob's vixen friend, Fox, journey to the witch's house, which lies deserted. Clara races to Will's house, only to discover the secret of the mirror herself. Will sneaks back through the mirror to say goodbye to his girlfriend Clara over the phone. His old friend and mentor, Chanute, tells him that the berries that grow in the garden of child-eating witch may cure Will of the curse of the stone skin. Jacob has already lost both of his parents and cannot bear to lose his brother so he rides off in search of a cure. Jacob knows that the stone will soon invade his entire body, and Will will become one of the Goyl. This curse that turns human skin to stone was created by the Dark Fairy, the Goyl King's lover. As a result of the attack, Will's skin begins turning to stone. Soon after Will arrives, he is attacked and scratched by a Goyl, a humanoid race with stone skin. Twelve years after Jacob finds his way through the mirror, Jacob's brother Will finally follows Jacob into the Mirrorworld.
The Mirrorworld is similar to this world, but has not progressed as far technologically, and magic still runs rampant. This world is referred to by Jacob as the Mirrorworld. When he removes his hand, he finds himself standing in front of an identical mirror in an abandoned tower.
Finding a note containing cryptic instructions, Jacob presses his hand against the glass to obscure his face. Reckless opens with twelve-year-old Jacob Reckless entering his missing father's study and discovering a strange mirror.
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