Part of Earthsea Cycle, book 6.4
First published 2014
For fourteen years, Weed has made the same journey to a shallow valley where a standing stone waits in silence. She brings offerings and speaks to the stone, begging it to remember its true identity. The stone was once her father, Lord Garnet, transformed by magic into cold rock. Weed has spent her youth tending to him, promising that vengeance will come for those who cursed him. She believes that revenge will break the spell and return her father to human form. Now the moment she has waited for arrives. The chance for retribution is finally within reach. But Weed must face a terrible question: will destroying her father's enemies truly restore him, or will she discover that some transformations cannot be undone? In this Earthsea tale, Le Guin explores what happens when the price of justice might be higher than anyone imagined.
Genres: fiction, mythology, fantasy, magical-realism
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: curse, found-family, redemption
Setting: Odren, Earthsea
36 pages · Kindle Edition · Clarion Books