Collecting protectors and collaborators as she flees, then faces her fate, Beatryce teaches a boy whose parents were murdered to read and is helped by the former king, who walked away from his throne to live in a tree in the dark woods, all with Answelica, her fiercest protector, at her side. And, as Beatryce herself recovers he memories of life before, she comes into her power - storytelling. As the story unfolds, readers learn more about Beatryce, who at first has only one curious memory of the life she led before she arrived, covered in dirt and blood, at the monastery. It is a prophecy largely ignored because this child will be a girl in a realm where it is "against the law to teach a girl to read, a woman to write." When Beatryce is discovered by Brother Eidk at the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, feverish and sleeping in the barn with Answelica, a cleverly cruel and single-minded goat who terrifies all at the monastery, he quickly discovers that she must be the child of the prophecy and does all he can to protect her. The titular prophecy, found in the "Chronicles of Sorrowing," speaks of a child who will unseat a king.
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