Chapter Twenty-Eight

( Chapter Twenty-Eight: In which Maira and our assembled heroes make one last, desperate gambit to stop what's about to happen and Maira finds that she has one last fight to fight before it's over. )

Chapter Twenty-Nine

( Chapter Twenty-Nine: In which there little time, little hope, and little chance of success, but Maira finally gets something she's wanted for a long time - just not in the way she would have wanted it. )

Chapter Thirty

( Chapter Thirty: In which our story concludes with death and dreams, with some questions unanswered, but some problems solved and Maira, for all her striving, now has more than she did when she began. )