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Chapters 1-13Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, physical abuse, and sexual content.
Chapter 1 Summary: “Queen Kaila”
Queen Kaila, ruler of the Third Kingdom, watches in horror as Ranhold Castle is consumed in a flood of molten gold that solidifies and kills. She was supposed to marry King Midas, ruler of the Sixth Kingdom, that day, but her plans were ruined when a member of his harem, Auren, unleashed her gold-touch power, killing the king and ruining Kaila’s plans to extend her rule.
Auren and her lover Slade escape on his timberwing, Argo. Seeing an opportunity, Kaila plans to expand her rule anyway. She thinks, “I may not have gold-touch, and I may not have rot, but words are the most powerful weapon of all, and I will wield them” (14).
Chapter 2 Summary: “Slade”
As Slade flies Auren to safety, she remains unconscious. Slade was forced to use his rot power because Auren had lost control of her gold-touch and might have killed everyone in Ranhold. Slade put her into a deathlike state to try to save her. Now, if he can’t pull the rot out of her in time, she might die.
