NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
Well, Penrys is indeed a “destroyer of demons” now—never mind that the demon was another chained adept like herself, and what that says about her own potential for evil. I’m sure she regrets not being able to question him before he died, but then she’s afraid of what she might have found.
Have you ever wondered what you would do with special powers, and what reponsibilities come with them? That’s what occupies Penrys’s thoughts now. Is she as dangerous as the chained wizard she killed? What if there are more of them—surely they can’t be the only ones.
Penrys is willing to see what Najud wants to show her about life in sarq-Zannib. It feels to her like she owes him that much, at least. After all, what else can she do—travel halfway around the world back to Ellech whe
