Godiria is trying to wake his family's namesake and control it. In addition to the myriad ways in which this plan will backfire on him, it will destroy Eleanora's city and she cannot be having that. She calls out to the city around him, and prepares for battle...

She underestimated him. Them. Rai and his two flunkies - who were much more than flunkies. They were prepared for her, and extremely skillfully, despite Rai's complete lack of education, and Maren's which is almost as severe.

Eleanora is dying. But she's not dead, and there is at least a week left to stop them. Just because she has an agreement to keep magic under wraps and, within her city, under control, doesn't mean she's forgotten the many dangerous ways to add a great deal of it to the world rapidly.

Now, she just has to find someone worthy of it, and guide them through it, in the hour or two she has left. She reaches out to her city. Find her an heir who loves it as much as she does...