"Peace is only the page between breaths."
Centuries after the sealing of the Word, the world sleeps beneath a fragile calm.
In Elyndar, a child dreams of rivers of ink flowing beneath her skin.
In Drathul, beneath mountains of cooled flame, the Quill of creation stirs once more-no longer metal or glass, but living light that dreams the dreams of mortals.
Through the voice of the Quill itself, The Dreaming Word unfolds the awakening of the Fourth Age:
a world where memory bleeds into reality, where forgotten tongues whisper in the dew, and where a young dreamer named Seren unknowingly reopens the wound of creation.
Her touch will awaken the last guardians of faith, summon the Undernourished from their slumber, and ignite a new struggle between remembrance and silence.
But even peace has its appetite.
When Orki chieftains seek to rewrite their history in blood, the dream and the Word collide-and the Quill must decide whether to speak, or to remain still.
Lyrical, haunting, and steeped in mythic philosophy, Book III of The Codex Cycle(TM) continues the saga begun in The Rise of the Undernourished and The Story Remembers, weaving a tale of creation, memory, and the price of awakening.
"The story does not end. It simply dreams."