Ani demands that they should then kill Bananach, 'breath for breath', but Devlin informs her that neither of the twins can be killed without killing all of faerie.īananach later goes to stab Ani, but Irial throws himself in front of her, taking the wound that would be hers. Devlin and Ani return to huntsdale only to find that Bananach has killed Ani's sister Tish. Scared, Rae contacts Devlin through a dream and informs him of this turn of events. Bananach pays a visit, and starts killing members of the high court. Unfortunately, she becomes obsessed with this, and without her rulership faerie starts to dissolve. In Faerie, meanwhile, Rae, who is a dreamwalker, enters Sorcha's dream and gives her a way to watch Seth in the mortal world. Ani, Devlin and the steed -which Ani names Barry, short for Barracuda- leave the state to get away from Bananach. She tells Ani that she has to kill Seth and Niall, or give Bananach her blood.Īni can do neither, and is soon found by an unclaimed steed. This also, however, draws the attention of Devlin and Sorcha's other sister, Bananach, the essence of war. Irial, the former dark king, has been performing tests to identify what about her is different and introduce it to his court to strengthen them. Devlin and Ani meet at the crows nest, where she drains his energy and he leaves with a taste of her blood.Īni is different from other hounds, due to her ability to feed on both emotions and touch, and mortal and faery. Devlin, meanwhile, has been told by Sorcha to stay in the mortal world to keep an eye on her son, Seth.

The novel then cuts to the present day, to Ani, the halfling whose life Devlin spared, as she tries to fit in with the other hounds, but cannot, due to her father's protectiveness and her mortal blood. It then skips forward about a century, to show the high queen, Sorcha, ordering Devlin to kill a baby halfling, the child of the Gabriel, along with a warning that it should 'never enter faerie'.

The prologue of Radiant Shadows shows Devlin, the high court's Assassin, agreeing to shelter a spectral girl name Rae in faerie without his queen's knowledge.

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