Chapter 13

Summary

• Tamlin displays his magical powers by lighting candles, despite Lucien's earlier comments on magic being affected by a blight.
• The protagonist, Feyre, feels anxious about her illiteracy and inability to contact her family.
• Feyre resents having to rely on Tamlin or Lucien to write a letter to her family, determining to improve her reading.
• Alone in the study, Feyre struggles with reading a children's book as part of her self-education.
• She explores the library and encounters a mural illustrating the history and territories of Prythian, as well as the calamitous war against humans.
• Feyre learns about the geography of Prythian, including the placement of its courts and the Night Court's formidable landscape.
• Feyre contemplates and rejects Tamlin's offer to help her write, because of her distrust in faeries and her pride.
• When Feyre returns to resume her reading, she notices the crumpled list of words from earlier has been removed.
• Feyre debates internally about possibly accepting Tamlin's help, then decides to learn more about the blight and seek a loophole in the Treaty with the faeries.
• She goes to Lucien for information, hinting at wanting to know how to catch a Suriel—a creature reputed to tell truths if captured.
• Lucien covertly instructs Feyre on how to catch a Suriel, while pretending it's hypothetical to avoid consequences from Tamlin.
• Feyre leaves Lucien's room with a hunting knife and intends to borrow a bow, with Lucien expressing a grudging respect for her.