The Raven Scholar

After the rebellion, after the riots, the purges and the public executions, Bersun had sailed in procession down Dragon’s Mouth Bay to Samra City—ancestral home of the Valit dynasty. Yasila had grown up a hostage on the Dragon island of Helia, where secrets were hoarded like precious jewels. Cain’s ability to resist Yasila’s magic, and survive the Visitor’s poisoned food. “Does Cain have a fragment of the Fox in him?” Sol blinked again, his translucent second eyelid sliding across his dark brown eye. And Neema understood, at last, why they were here in the throne room.