The war between the Longing Domain, the Hunger Domain, and the Mirror Domain was over. The Longing Domain, which had seemed indomitable once, fell in just a few months, and now, only two warring factions remained.
So, a new war was now unraveling under the patchwork sky of the Dream Realm.
At the time Cassie and Rain arrived at the Ebony Island, Mordret was steadily pushing the forces of humanity back on all fronts. All the northern expanse of the Dream Realm, excluding only Ravenheart, already belonged to him. His seemingly endless vessels were moving like an unstoppable wave down the River of Tears, and in the east, the Black Mountains were poised to fall soon.
It seemed like the King of Nothing was going to wash over the world like a tide, leaving nothing but death and desolation in his wake… leaving nothing but himself to rule the empty, devastated world.
But reality was different.
