Alexand and her troops, together with Inajda, Heyem and Jarad, left the desert, using Inajda’s writer, and are now at the very northern tip of China, on the borders of Russia, in between Mongolia and Kazakhstan.

The writer gives life to a story, the reader keeps it alive.
Juba has a feeling someone has been watching him. He returns back to his boarding house, and bolts the door, closes the curtains, and switches off the light.
Lord Filius Anderson and Lady Helga Ritter have been following Juba Apfvarzian, taking blood samples, tracking his health. He is still completely free of the project ghost ship strain.