Gathered Light

Nine days east, Greymark is under attack, and Fabian Valcrest can only listen.

Through the bond, his sister on the wall draws on the only Saint in the kingdom until his pitcher runs dry. By morning, the secrets House Valcrest kept from the Crown are no longer his to keep. The Queen wants the truth, over breakfast.

Fabian, Ambrose and Felix start bottling healing for an army that has to march. But the hand behind the attack belongs to Felix's own aunt, and she didn't come for Greymark. She came for the Saint.

Then the First Princess asks for the fifth place in his Covenant, and the road home runs straight into a siege where every drop of light is a life, and every word on the bond is paid from the same pitcher.

Five candles. One wall. And the frost is coming for him.