Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of violence.

Talasyn wakes on a cot in a cell. She sees Alaric on the cot opposite her. They begin to argue, as each blames the other for their shared incarceration. They begin to fight after Talasyn accuses Alaric of being his father’s dog, before the Nenavarene interrupt them.

Talasyn is taken for questioning first. Though she is cuffed, she is given water. She asks her captors about the purple magic, which they refer to as the Voidfell dimension, a necromancy magic dimension that can be used to kill, though the Nenavarene can also use it to merely stun, as they did with Alaric and Talasyn. The officer interrogating her is named Yanme Rapat, kaptan of the patrol divisions of the Huktera, the Nenavarene armed forces. Rapat questions Talasyn’s intentions in visiting the Nenavar Dominion, as she and Alaric were found dangerously fighting near the Light Sever, and General Bieshimma attempted to reach their capital city without the consent of the Zahiya-lachis, or the Nenavarene queen.

Talasyn questions why she cannot access the Lightweave as she looks suspiciously at the opaque birdcages in the corner of the interrogation room. Rapat explains that the cages are sariman cages, capable of repressing the powers of any aethermancers.