Table of Contents

Part I: The Burning of West Six

Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is’t to leave betimes? Let it be.

-Hamlet

• Prologue: The Meeting of the Waters
• Chapter 1: Sunset in the Garden
• Chapter 2: Thieves and Friends
• Chapter 3: The Unwelcome Guest
• The Question
• Chapter 4: The Eternal Eye and the Book
• Chapter 5: Plans in the Dark
• Chapter 6: The Meaning of Hammer and Nails
• The Burned and the Eternal, a true fairy tale
• Chapter 7: Re-Incarnate Day, the Kiln, and the Hand
• Chapter 8: The One in Which Cassandra Milks a Cow
• Chapter 9: Bad Dreams and the White Mountain
• The Empty Places and the Poisoned Wastelands
• Chapter 10: Fire and Water
• Chapter 11: All Prophets Die, Don’t They?
• Chapter 12: Breakfast with Watchers
• The Guard
• Chapter 13: The Burning of West Six
• Chapter 14: Running
• Chapter 15: Stealing from the Dead
• The Artist
• Chapter 16: The Professor with the Knife
• Chapter 17: Waking Up to Forgotten Memories
• Chapter 18: Seth, Son of Jonah, and the Locked Doors
• The Mother and the Prophets, a true fairy tale. From, True Tales of Novan History: A History for Children
• Chapter 19: The Demon Star and the Unseen
• Chapter 20: Astrid and Viola
• Chapter 21: Enough
• The Seer's Oath, from the Seer's Manual, by Colonel Alayla Mason
• Chapter 22: Interview with the Colonel
• Chapter 23: The One in which Ben Sees Something He Cannot Explain
• Chapter 24: The Ghost Locked in the Kiln
• The First Watcher, a true fairy tale. From, True Tales of Novan History: A History for Children
• Chapter 25: Eyes, Fire, and Ash
• Chapter 26: The Forgotten Brother
• Chapter 27: The Place Where Spring Lives
• The Fields
• Chapter 28: How to Kill a Watcher
• Chapter 29: The Burning Fields
• Chapter 30: Drowning and Stars
• The Tomb of the Faithful
• Chapter 31: The One in which Ben Becomes a Secret
• Chapter 32: The Burn Factory
• Chapter 33: Algol is Falling. Perseus has Come. Cetus will Die.

Part II: The Windrose and the Mountain

If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.

-Hamlet

• Processing Center 467
• Chapter 34: The First Day Remembering
• Chapter 35: Lies
• Chapter 36: The One in which it All Falls Apart
• Subject 1: Intake
• Chapter 37: Praise the Prophets, He was Right
• Chapter 38: Doors and Vines
• Chapter 39: Who Gave the Seer a Gun?
• The Seer’s Mask, from the Seer’s Manual, by Colonel Alayla Mason
• Chapter 40: The Burner, the Blind Woman, and the Girl with the Worst Luck of All
• Chapter 41: Bears, Butterflies, and Fifty Dollars
• Chapter 42: Honey and Blood
• The Haven and the Empty Places
• Chapter 43: The Not-Soldier and the One-Armed Man
• Chapter 44: Do Gods Limp?
• Chapter 45: Eyes and Spies in the Empty Places
• Subject 1: Triggers
• Chapter 46: Gone
• Chapter 47: Mica Goes East
• Chapter 48: The One in which Mica Drives Backwards. Poorly.
• Subject 1: The Accident
• Chapter 49: Dumpsters in West One
• Chapter 50: The Nowhere Woman
• Chapter 51: Eyes, Lies, and Strong Drinks
• The Wall
• Chapter 52: The Things on the Wall
• Chapter 53: Always There, Always Out of Sight
• Chapter 54: Aren’t You a Little Young for Treason?
• The Burning of Windrose City
• Chapter 55: Prophecy, Promises, and Deals
• Chapter 56: Do You Have to Save Everyone?
• Chapter 57: Falling Towards Something Painful and Solid and Real and Completely Unavoidable
• The River
• Chapter 58: Don’t You Know a Demon When You See One?
• Chapter 59: Don’t Look at the River, That’s Where They Throw the Bodies
• Chapter 60: True Stories You Can’t Unhear