43. Everen: Starfire

Summary

• The chapter focuses on a dragon named Everen caught in the midst of a war involving the Veil, dragons, humans, magical creatures called wraiths, and a storm.
• Everen fights against the wraiths trying to keep the half-open Veil from fully opening or closing.
• Everen's mother and other dragons are also engaged in the battle, but they are injured and half-trapped in the Veil.
• Everen's mother is adamant about the dragons inheriting the world, and is ready to pay the price of a human's death. But Everen is trying to find another solution, hoping to save both worlds and those she loves.
• Everen is attacked by arrows from humans who are part of the Order and also faces an incoming army on horseback from Vatra.
• Everen is trying to close the Veil, but her mother insists she kill a human to let the dragons through. Everen, however, knows that doing so would result in the destruction of both worlds.
• Everen has the ability to see the future, and is tortured by visions of dragons burning and humans dying, and two worlds that seem doomed.
• The chapter ends with Everen sacrificing herself to close the Veil, healing the rent between the worlds and keeping the dragon and human worlds separate, despite her mother's wishes.
• Throughout the chapter, Everen communicates with someone, we assume an unnamed human, via magic. Everen returns some magic to this human and, despite their hatred for each other, feels a deep bond and has a shared fate with the human.
• As Everen falls into the storm, she feels an imminent peace, accepts her fate, and the bond between her and the human snaps. But she's left with a final message within the storm: "Deep sutures make the strongest scars".