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Chapter 1
Kira buries her mother alone at the edge of the Field of Leaving. She is young, has a twisted leg, and lives in a village where the weak are not expected to survive.
Chapter 2
Kira returns to find her small home has been burned. Vandara and a group of women destroyed it while Kira was at the burial.
Chapter 3
Kira stands before the Council of Guardians. Vandara presents her case against Kira, arguing the land should be reassigned.
Chapter 4
Kira is taken to the Edifice, the large stone building where the Council of Guardians works and lives. She is given a room of her own, food, and materials for her work.
Chapter 5
Kira examines the Singer's Robe closely for the first time and begins to understand the scope of the task. The robe is enormous and old, covered in embroidery that tells the histo…
Chapter 6
Kira is brought before the Council of Guardians to settle the dispute over her land and her right to stay in the village.
Chapter 7
Kira settles into her new room in the Council Edifice, which is far more comfortable than anything she has known. She meets Thomas, a boy her age who has been given a similar assi…
Chapter 8
Kira begins working on the Singer's robe in earnest. She studies the embroidery already on it, which tells the history of the world in images, and realizes the future portion of t…
Chapter 9
Kira continues her lessons with Annabella and grows more comfortable with the old woman. During one visit, Annabella says something that shakes Kira: she tells her there are no be…
Chapter 10
Annabella dies, and the timing feels wrong to Kira. The old woman was healthy during their last visit, and her sudden death comes just after she told Kira the beasts do not exist.
Chapter 11
Kira continues her work in the Council Edifice, learning to use the special threads and dyes kept in the room above her workspace.
Chapter 12
Kira works on the Singer's robe, studying the scenes already stitched into it and trying to understand what she is meant to add.
Chapter 13
Kira attends the Gathering, the community's annual ceremony where the Singer performs the entire history of the people using the robe as a visual aid.
Chapter 14
After the Gathering, Kira talks with Thomas and they process what they witnessed. Kira tells Thomas about the chains, and he is troubled but not entirely surprised.
Chapter 15
Matt returns and reveals where he has been: he traveled to a village beyond the forest, a place the community claims is full of dangerous beasts and outcasts.
Chapter 16
Kira discovers that Thomas has been hiding a young boy named Jo in his room. Jo is a small child with an extraordinary gift for singing, kept isolated and controlled just as Kira…
Chapter 17
Kira, Thomas, and Matt continue to talk about their situation and about the world beyond the village. Matt mentions he knows of a place where people who are different are accepted…
Chapter 18
Matt disappears on a journey he has been planning in secret. Kira and Thomas are worried but cannot follow him.
Chapter 19
Matt returns from his journey and he has not come back alone. He has brought a blind man with him, and Kira quickly realizes this man is her father, Christopher, who was not kille…
Chapter 20
Kira faces a choice. Her father wants her to leave with him and come to the community that accepted him.
Chapter 21
Kira discovers that Thomas has been hiding a secret as significant as her own: he too has a guardian who controls his life and keeps him isolated.
Chapter 22
Kira and Thomas discover a hidden passage or connection between their living spaces, which lets them communicate more freely.
Chapter 23
Kira learns more definitive information pointing to her father's survival. The picture of the village as a self-serving system that discards or exiles people who threaten its orde…
Chapter 24
Kira goes beyond the village boundary and finds her father Christopher living with a community of people who were cast out or escaped.
Chapter 25
Kira makes her final choice: she returns to the village rather than staying with her father. She goes back because she believes she can use her gift to change things from the insi…
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