The Second Death of Locke

He had a point—Grey and Kier were fighting in the southern border, against Luthar; the High Lord, known only as Scaelas, in the fashion of all Idistra’s sovereigns, was in the northeast. An open brazier blazed on one side, filled to the brim with light purple magic-fed flame, and Grey relaxed slightly in the warmth. Grey noted Commander Reggin standing with the bear-like man—Scaelas, she knew; Scaelas, the High Lord, with his red hair. When darkness finally fell, the eve before the battle to come, Kier was not in her room when she went upstairs to bed.