[3] Raging at the escape of the StarSon, Qeteb has the Hawkchilds scour the remains of Tencendor.

Unaware of this oversight, the Mother, Ur, and the Horned Ones wait in the Sacred Groves, slowly dying.

Axis walks to the bridge and begins talking to it, though halfway through it begins screaming and it dies, and Axis nearly falls into the chasm below until Drago saves him, and though Axis notices a some sort of power in him, he still stubbornly refuses to forgive him for Caelum's death, thinking he is still the malevolent man he was when he was a baby, who always wanted Caelum's inheritance.

There are a lot of people with powers wandering around, stepping on each other's toes, and internecine disputes abound.

Douglass is an author full of big ideas, but her eagerness to include every big idea in one story results in a cluttered playground with too many characters, too many grudges, too many stories for one book to contain coherently.