Publisher's Synopsis
The cipher key has been discovered. The trials times have begun. And mastery of the Elementals is her final hope. Safiya has made it safely out of the Republic, but now she finds herself entangled within the complicated dynamics that link her and her people to the sovereign tribes of Terra, and to the Urnahi exiles that remain under the grip of the colonizing off-worlders. The recent attacks against the neutral zone and the wards have taken many lives and have decimated homes and families, and there is word of a mind illness spreading throughout the land. The Majani priests have declared that the trial times have begun but the Urnahi people will not give up hope for justice, and Safiya cannot ignore the signs. Her brother has returned to her, her gifts are becoming stronger than they've ever been before, and now she must choose her path. She must embrace the legacy passed onto her. It was time for her to be brave.
