Six years have passed since Iruvienne became Queen of the Lands of Light. Aran returns from the White Lands bringing Prince Legonon with him. Everything seems to go well, until Iruvienne once again dreams of the spider and the man with serpent-like hair... Why has this Vision returned? And what is its meaning? Is the answer to this mystery somewhere in the North Lands?
The time has come for Iruvienne to live the adventure she has always dreamed of. But is she ready for what she is going to find?...
And so we reach the end of the trilogy; which, in a certain way, it’s also a new beginning.
The book is marked by the continuous, although sometimes almost imperceptible, oscillation between reflection and adventure. Slowly, as the pieces of the puzzle get together, patterns and secrets are revelled. Through small conflicts and dilemmas, their own fears, and the growing perception that the frontier between good and evil, right and wrong, is not as marked as one would suppose, the characters define their paths and draw the story’s culmination.
Nature, unifying element, personified in its all but never in a unique being, is a constant throughout the plot. The sensations that it creates, the connections which links it to all characters, allows and favours the events’ development. In fact, certain characters form with Nature a simultaneous physical and spiritual link; there is almost a fusion between them.
More than the story’s end, this third book is, for me, the ultimate beginning of another marvellous adventure: writing. After the first two books, in which I was, somehow, still a little afraid of immersing in the words and symbols, I decided to ignore all the fears. I played with the plot as much as I felt like, I developed every subject that I wanted, no matter how sensitive it could be, and above all I explored the writing. So, I give you the story. It isn’t mine anymore; it’s yours. As for the writing, I keep it for all my future projects.