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The Traitor Queen
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Chapters 31-42Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide contains discussion of violence, torture, suicide, and suicidal ideation.
Chapter 31 Summary: “Lara”
Lara and Aren leave the compound and walk for nearly a week. Not used to these conditions, Aren’s strength wanes, and Lara convinces him to ride the camel. When Aren falls asleep, Lara leaves the camel walking in the direction of the nearest town but runs ahead solo, hoping to steal the supplies they need and return so they can bypass the town completely. Instead, she is caught.
Chapter 32 Summary: “Aren”
When Aren wakes, he discovers what Lara planned. He waits patiently with the camel for her to return, but when she’s gone too long, he follows the path to town.
Chapter 33 Summary: “Lara”
Lara is stripped naked and put in a pillory to die slowly from sun exposure and dehydration. Eventually, she sees Aren in the distance. He arrives in town, stumbling as if drunk, and makes quick friends with the men. Lara wonders if it is a ploy at first, but when Aren makes a deal with her captor, Timin, to receive escort out of the desert, she wonders if he’ll leave her to die now that he no longer needs her.
Hours pass without sign of Aren, who disappears inside with the men. Eventually he comes outside, and Lara asks him for her bottle of poison.
