“A Valkyrie cannot love. A Valkyrie must accept the challenge, whoever throws it. No one who has met a Valkyrie before will ever be able to recognize her. Otherwise, the secret will protect itself, and anyone who hears her will die. The disobedient Valkyrie will be judged by the Court of the Twelve.” Such is the true law.
Defeating a midnight sorceress in a duel, Irka issues a challenge to the darkness. It is Methodius Buslaev who must destroy the lone Valkyrie. The Valkyrie’s spear and Drevnir’s blade that betrayed the light will clash in battle—only one will be destined to emerge alive. Irka realizes that Methodius will never be able to recognize her in her new guise. And no matter how skillfully he wields the sword, he is in danger—because to win, all she has to do is simply name her own name, and then an old curse will take effect.