They are small and merciless. Blessed and cursed. And the time of reckoning is already on the threshold.
He — Gelien Malnsen, the great king of Malnborn. He made his choice and lost everything except time. There is no hope left.
Gelien has learned what true legacy his ancestral name conceals. Now in his world there is only darkness and a voice.
While the king of Malnborn withers in the dark, his friends try to go on living. A calamity hangs over the kingdom: Kjell’s sacrifice has not quenched the hunger of the spirits. An ancient prophecy is nearing its fulfillment, and the malnams will have to give up what is most precious—or lose their true essence forever.