Set in the kingdom of Breodanir after the events of Hunter's Death, this novella returns to an old, sorrowful story: a girl bound by duty to marry, a boy she loves who cannot fulfill that duty and rides off to war, and the god who intervenes when he doesn't return. Michelle West tells what comes after — the one night Cynthia of Maubreche is granted with him, and the grief and meaning she carries forward from it.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources