Book III of The Eleven Kingdoms. The actions of the Revenants are sending shock waves through all the Eleven Kingdoms. No matter what happens, the impact of their release will be felt for generations. Slave and Keshik leave the Hidden City of the Blindfolded Queen, together with Maida and Myrrhini to seek out the Revenants for their own reasons and with their own purposes. Myrrhini, troubled by her visions into the Mertian 'world of could be' is struggling to come to terms with her growing power and complex relationship with Slave, while Keshik comes face to face with the reasons for his exile from the Tulugama. Slave continues to wrestle with the twin 'blessings' of the Scaren Revenant as he seeks the peace promised him by Myrrhini.