Difference between revisions of "Summary:Tress of the Emerald Sea"

The narrator offers an overview of the [[Luhel bond]]. Midnight spores differ from other colors of Lumar's rogue aethers in utilizing a the Luhel bond, which is close to how aethers are supposed to work, symbiotically. It is not like the [[Nahel bond]], which exchanges "consciousness and anchoring to reality;" rather, there is an exchange of physical matter.

Tress feels water leaving her body as the Midnight Essence grows and coalesces into a face which requests more water. Tress agrees, and the Midnight Essence adopts a simulacrum of Huck from her mind. Giving it more water, she controls and then inhabits the Midnight Essence. In Crow's quarters, they read Crow's research about possible cures from the verdant aether spores by something or someone named [[Xisisrefliel|Xisis]]. She uncoversdiscovers that Crow had secret meetings with Weev about locating Xisis, but he turned to blackmail, which is why she killed him. Further reading reveals Xisis to be a dragon living under the Crimson Sea, though reports are apocryphal due to the dangers of the Crimson. The Midnight Essence fights Tress on reading further, and then approaching footsteps coincide with Huck severing the tie to the Midnight Essence. He had acted on Tress' increasing dehydration. She recuperates and plans to meet with the other officers.