Spiral Dance

In which all the king’s horses and all the king’s men aren’t available, so it’ll have to be Jela and the Tree.

Back when Cantra was preparing to make way for Maelyn tay’Nordif, she mentioned that coming out the other side usually involved a drug and a “taler”. The task of the taler is presumably the one that the Tree gives Jela: telling her the story of herself, to remind her which bits of her are real. The drug side of it, the Tree seems capable of handling itself, as it did on the way in.

There’s more of the book left than I’d been expecting. I’d remembered the expedition into Osabei Tower as most of it, with a straight run to the end from there.