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Blood Over Bright Haven
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Chapters 14-18Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, racism, gender discrimination, death, sexual violence, rape, and suicide.
Chapter 14 Summary: “Cold the Crossing”
In the epigraph, Archmage Orynhel argues against Kwen people being allowed to enter Tiran before they’ve been inculcated with Tiranish ideals of labor and morality.
Sciona goes to the Berald bakery to talk to Ansel about his brother, Carseth. Carseth was a border guard who saw Kwen people torn to shreds by the Blight. Guards were ordered to leave any injured to die. Unable to find peace, Carseth left the guard and then died by suicide. Sciona comforts Ansel, tells him the truth about the barrier, but then wipes his mind with a memory spell before she leaves.
Sciona walks through the dark Kwen quarter to find Thomil, but he slams his apartment door in her face. She grabs onto him, frantically apologizing that he was right. He can never forgive her, but when she asks his help to carry out a plan, he softens and reluctantly lets her in. Sciona explains what she has learned about the Crossing and the Forbidden Coordinates. However, she refuses to believe that Bringham knows the truth.
Carra arrives. Thomil explains that they pretend to be father and daughter so the Tiran government doesn’t separate them. Just then, he shouts, interrupting Carra, who is sneaking up on Sciona with a knife; Carra wants to murder Sciona for her use of magic.
