Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow

Morrigan returns to the Deucalion and overhears Jupiter quarreling with Holliday. Jupiter is upset that Holliday is using Morrigan for public relations purposes. Lady Margot appears to make amends, insisting that the Darlings had no idea of Morrigan’s existence. She delivers a letter from her mother and an invitation to the wedding of Lady Modestine, one of Morrigan’s aunts. Morrigan is hurt and furious that Jupiter knew her birth and never told her. She calls the Darlings her real family and is angry that he kept her from them. The letter from Lady Mallory asks Morrigan to forgive her for acting out of grief. She writes, “I would gladly trade ten years of my future to have shared just one week of your past” (121), and signs herself Morrigan’s loving grandmother.

Morrigan tells Hawthorne and Cadence about meeting the Darlings. Hawthorne in turn reveals that he has been invited to perform an exhibition ride at the Winter Trials. Cadence shares a series of books called the Silverborn Saga that are lightly fictionalized stories of people from the Silver District. Morrigan stays up late reading one.

The next morning, Fenestra the Magnificat (a large, talking cat) asks Morrigan to come see Jupiter.