![]() Thymara hears about the positions being offered for dragon keepers. The dragons hatch a plan to leave for the mythical city of Kelsingra, they make the humans think it is their idea. ![]() We return to Sintara and the dragons who are depressed and living in squalor. There are heavy hints (later confirmed) that the relationship is actually between Hest and Sedric. Hest side steps the question by asking Sedric to confirm there isn't another woman in his life. Alise accuses Hest of being unfaithful after discovering various clues. Leftrin is blackmailed into transporting a Chalcedean trader, Sinad Arich, into the Rain Wilds. This is to prevent the escape of the secret that Leftrin has illegally refitted his boat with new wizardwood. Also, Swarge, a tillerman on Tarman decides to marry a woman from another boat, Bellin, and his Captain, Leftrin, gives them both a place on Tarman for life. This is the start of the gap that opens between Hest and Alise, as she discovers he is not the charming man who wooed her. It is revealed that he was the one who suggested that Hest proposes to Alise, as she is on the edge of spinsterhood and thus would be an easy catch.Īlise goes on to marry Hest, with the wedding night ending badly as she discovers he has no interest in her and is merely attempting to sire a son. We meet Sedric, a childhood friend of Alise, who is a close friend of Hest and is working as his secretary, to much disapproval from his family. He proposes a marriage of convenience, allowing Alise to pursue her scholarly interests in dragons and the Elderlings, and removing Hest from his father's nagging for him to get a wife and continue the Finbok line with a grandson. Sintara, a dragon who was formerly the sea serpent Sisarqua, emerges from her cocoon as Thymara watches.Īlise Kincarron, a Bingtown Trader's daughter, is courted by Hest Finbok, a Trader's son. Thymara watches the dragons emerge from their cocoons and stops one eating her father by telling it he is not food. She lives a life where she is barely acknowledged by those around her. Rather than being left out to die ("exposed") as custom dictated, her father rescues her and decided to keep her, contradicting her mother and socially shaming the family. She has been born with claws instead of fingernails as a result of the Rain Wilds. We also meet Thymara, an 11 year old girl from the Trehaug, in the Rain Wilds. The dragon inside is dead and he initially plans on selling the log for a fortune, before deciding to keep it and use it himself on Tarman. We then follow the riverman Leftrin, Captain of the barge Tarman, as he finds a wizardwood log washed away from the beach where the dragons made their cocoons. She struggles to build her cocoon but is given aid by the dragon Tintaglia and the human attendants and she fades unconscious as the metamorphosis begins. The serpent Sisarqua recalls how many serpents died along the way, and many more would die on the beach or in their cocoons. The book opens as the sea serpents are in the final stage of their journey to cocoon and become dragons.
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