


But Sonea both distrusts the Guild for their apparent lack of compassion for the poor dwells and fears their reprisal for her accidental injury of Lord Fergun. Lords Dannyl and Rothen lead the search into the slums, worried that Sonea's increasingly uncontrolled magic will harm her and those around her. Although young gang members gather to throw rocks at them, the magicians are protected by a magical shield-until Sonea, a young dwell, hurls a rock through their barrier and injures the magician Lord Fergun.įearing a rogue magician, the Guild begins searching for Sonea. Each winter in Imardin, the capital city of Kyralia, the streets are purged of the "dwells", the city's poor under-class, by magicians who drive away the inhabitants of the city's slums.
