Borrowed Light.

Fabian Valcrest came back from the garden alive, with a pool the Academy must never learn about and a princess who now calls him by his name. The Queen wants the match. Fabian gives the only answer he can: Liesel first. He'll ask her himself, properly, with something he made with his own two hands. That's harder than it sounds when three sisters can feel his heart race from across the kingdom.

Then Felix Aquilan arrives from Bellonia: loud, cheerful, a terrible singer, and the first mage whose spark makes Fabian's healing last. Together they learn to bottle the light. But riders without banners are moving on the forest road, Marika rides for Greymark in a hare mask, and a bottle has to last thirty days.

A volume about asking, and about what we carry for the people we love.