 Sandry has magic with threads, Tris with weather, Daja with smithing, and Briar with plants.Lady Sandrilene fa Toren is locked away in a dark room with a fading oil lamp.She was magically hidden in this storeroom days ago by her nurse, who was murdered moments later just outside the door by a mob bent on destroying everything infected by the fierce plague 
that killed Sandry's parents.