The incantation that drained the power and magic from the Ögonen was built on the back of Frey’s bridge closure spells. It went on long after anyone even remembered it; even after all trolls moved across the earth, the children of the Älvolk carried the incantation with them. Their blood was tied to a promise that was never theirs.

Now all of the kingdoms were uniting, holding meeting after meeting to discuss what to do, how to handle the impending changes that our world was undergoing. There were talks of destroying the monarchy, since it was based on a faulty premise that certain trolls had been given higher priority than others.

As for me and Pan, we understood even less than ever where we fit into this world. We’d been treated as half-bloods only to learn there was no such thing as a pureblood.

After the battle in Áibmoráigi, I went back to Merellä, to my apartment with Dagny. Although I did spend far more time at Pan’s place than I did at hers, and we talked about what we wanted to do and where we wanted to go from here. None of us really felt a calling for the Inhemsk Project, which seemed like a moot point in the face of everything we’d learned.

Dagny decided to stay on at the Mimirin. Regardless of where trollkind goes in the future, she believes it’s important to understand our past and our present. She wants to continue working with the Mästares to add to and maintain the knowledge and the history.

Mästare Amalie became the Korva of the Mimirin in the wake of Ragnall’s abrupt demise. From what we gathered, she’d been completely in the dark about Ragnall’s true allegiance and intentions, and she vowed to put the Mimirin back on course in its pursuit of knowledge.

Elof, meanwhile, didn’t follow us back from Áibmoráigi. He was alive and well—thriving, really—helping the survivors, like Noomi, that wanted to stay on to rebuild the First City. He saw it as a chance to restart the city on a better, less cultish track, and he now had unfettered access to all the history he’d been dying to read about all these years.

Finn went back to Förening to be with his family. During our phone calls, Hanna assures me that he’s working less now, but that he still advises Wendy and Loki on how to run the Trylle kingdom. Hanna is a huge gossip, and she always gives me an update on how everybody in the whole city is doing, but it’s good to hear that Tove and Sunniva seem to be happy and doing well, although rumor has it that Sunniva is thinking of traveling with her partner.