But the more battles they fight, the more fights Archer craves, until his thirst for violence threatens to transform him from the gentle boy Sefia knows to a grim warrior with a cruel destiny. With Sefia's help, Archer travels across the kingdom of Deliene rescuing boys while she continues to investigate the mysterious Book and secrets it contains. But when Sefia and Archer happen upon a crew of impressors in the wilderness, Archer finally finds a way to combat his nightmares: by hunting impressors and freeing the boys they hold captive. Haunted by painful memories, Archer struggles to overcome the trauma of his past with the impressors, whose cruelty plagues him whenever he closes his eyes. Having barely escaped the clutches of the Guard, Sefia and Archer are back on the run, slipping into the safety of the forest to tend to their wounds and plan their next move. Whenever Sefia is “reading from the Book,” the pages are printed differently, on what seems to be crinkled and aged paper with a gilded border. The Book also reveals passages to both Sefia and ourselves, of people in different places and in different times.

It’s as though the blinding light from using these powers caused the words to be more faint. The faded text only appears when Sefia teleports, using her mastery of Illumination. Again, what might seem like a printing error to some is actually something really significant to this book. There are spots of faded text throughout the book. No matter your course, your future is set.” It’s a grim message, but one that Sefia and Archer have grappled with, as their destinies seem bound to the Book.

In The Storyteller, the message spells out, “A story as vast as the sea, but on its waters you’ll never be free.

Now, this could have just been error in the book binding, but nothing is what it seems with these manuscripts.Īs with the previous two books, there is a message hidden among the page numbers located at the bottom of the pages. The first twelve pages of the book have their page numbers cut off.

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