Open Threads

• Can the Harbingers escape the willow with Zandra while its surviving guardians and roots continue attacking?

• What will happen to the Lythans and the souls suspended within the tree now that Aran Melosis is dead?

• Can the plague be ended without destroying the ancient consciousness and memories preserved inside the willow?

• Who are the forgotten people resisting at Slyphash, and why did Aran Melosis want them destroyed?

• Why did Aran call Whisper and Ernan prodigal sons, and who is the mother awaiting their return to the mainland?

• What do Aran Melosis's memories reveal about Tyve's earliest visitors, the coveted light, the broken circlet, and the box left on the beach?

• Why did Sethis direct Torrin toward the people of the Plague Swamps, and what answer was he meant to find there?

• How will absorbing Aran Melosis's soul affect Vyr and her growing hunger for life?