Chapter 36

Summary

• Protagonist is brought to a massive, torch-lit arena filled with faeries, both lesser and High Fae, who eye her with excitement and cruelty.
• She's presented in front of Queen Amarantha and made to face a treacherous obstacle course of trenches and tunnels.
• Before her task starts, she's thrown into the trench by a creature called the Attor and is forced to come face to face with a giant worm creature.
• The protagonist, Feyre, attempts to evade the worm, using her understanding of the trenches to keep ahead of it as the crowd watches eagerly.
• Feyre realizes the worm is blind when it fails to spot her trapped between the walls of a narrow passage, helping her to gain a momentary advantage.
• Feyre becomes desperate and frustrated as she finds herself trapped in a pit filled with bones, acknowledging it as the worm's den.
• Using bones around her, Feyre crafts a makeshift ladder to escape the pit while covering herself in mud to mask her scent from the worm.
• She devises a plan to trap the worm, setting sharp bones in the ground that would impale the creature when it follows her.
• Feyre lures the worm into her trap, ultimately killing it by leading it into the pit where it is impaled on the bone spikes she set up.
• Amarantha seems unimpressed with Feyre's victory and dismisses the protagonist's resilience as something anyone could have done.
• Feyre, despite her victory and the survival skill she exhibited, is taken back to her cell with a severe injury— a bone shard protruding through her forearm.
• Lucien, another character, attempts to assist Feyre during her task by alerting her to the worm's approach.
• Feyre narrowly avoids dying, proving her cunning and survival skills, while also showing her determination to survive, possibly driven by love for Tamlin.