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
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- 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
- The Lost Burner
- Chapter 61: Why Didn’t It Work?
- Chapter 62: Standing in the Barrel of a Gun
- Chapter 63: Juliette
- Subject 1: Progress
- Chapter 64: When Everything and Nothing Changes
- Chapter 65: Face to Face with a Different Twin
- Chapter 66: You Can’t Unring a Bell
- The First Seer, from the Seer’s Manual, by Colonel Alayla Mason
- Chapter 67: A Song of Sorrow and Sea Billows
Part III: The Fountain and the City of Salt
We defy augury. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
-Hamlet
