Meanwhile, Nesryn has gone off on a reconnaissance trip with one of the Khagan’s heirs, Sartaq, commander of his father’s ruk riders. And therein lies the problem: Chaol isn’t so sure.īut Yrene works on Chaol nevertheless, and they literally go through hell together, which brings them closer.

He has to decide whether he wants to fight back.

Yrene insists that Chaol has to acknowledge it and face it. Indeed, darkness within Chaol does feed the parasite, giving it control. It must be feeding upon something within you.’” “That if you are to succeed, I will have to endure that sort of pain. Do you understand what I am telling you?” It will fight me every step of the way, fight to convince you to tell me to stop. This shadow, this thing that haunts you – your body. Or beat it into submission enough to have space to work on you. Chaol won’t talk about what happened to him though, and it stymies Yrene’s attempts to heal him: Moreover, when Yrene puts her hands on Chaol’s back, she encounters an “echo in the bone” – magic not from this world. But she discovers that Chaol, in spite of his government position, is not at all the same as the men she hates. At first Yrene resents Chaol, because it was soldiers from his country of Adarlan who burned her mother alive. Yrene Towers, 21, is the healer assigned to Chaol she is one of the best, and in fact is the Heir Apparent to be named Healer on High. He would like to get the services of one of the renowned healers of Antica – home of the finest mortal doctors in the world, who possess magic and who, he hoped, could help him walk again. Chaol is now paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair.

Their pursuit takes on increasing urgency when they discover evidence that the forces of evil – the Valg, led by Erawan – have already infiltrated Antica.Ĭhaol, 23, has a second goal besides that of convincing the Khagan and his heirs to lend their armies to help fight Erawan. Their main goal is to gain military assistance for the struggle in the North. This book focuses on a mission to Antica, capital of the Southern Continent, undertaken by Chaol Westfall and Nesryn Faliq. This is a “parallel novel” in the excellent “Throne of Glass” fantasy series.

Note: Slight spoilers for previous books in this series.

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