Chapter XXVI, XXVII Summary

In Chapter XXVI, bound and gagged, Jair is marched along the fetid Silver River by the Mwellret Stythys. Other prisoners also march along with their captors toward the Anar. Jair is feverish and he hallucinates about his lost friends and family. Voices whisper that Jair should remember what he must do, but sometimes he cannot. When they stop for the night, the Mwellret forces Jair to drink medicine for the fever. Stythys takes Jair to the Gnome prisons at Dun Fee Aran, to stay a prisoner until he shares the magic of the wishsong. Jair cannot share the magic he was born with, but he worries that Stythys will force him to use it against his will, as he had done before in the Dwarf fortress. Jair's guard in the prison is a deaf and mute Gnome who is...