Chapter One
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Two
Writing Process Questions
100

The event which triggers Sem's emotional distress

What is a claiming ceremony?

100

The location within the house of the mirror that shatters

What is the back of the front door?

100

The name of the woman that Sem and Gregory rescue from the burning tents. 

Who is Beatrice Grey?
100

The first instance of Sem using magic in the second chapter.

What is running across a lake?

100

The word that Semoye's name kept autocorrecting to

What is Samoyed?

200

The thing other than sweets that Sowyn purchases at the market.

What are six china plates?

200

The method Sem uses to clean her skirts

What is transfiguring a leaf into a pitcher and conjuring a magical wind?

200

The reason Sem gives for not fleeing the city with Gregory. 

What is there was no room on his horse or in his cart? 

200

What happens to Sem when she falls into the Fissure

What is the water, earth, and air all rush to help her?

200

The original name of the second chapter (the first time I gave it to you)

What is Lightning and the Lake?

300

The reason Sowyn gives for disliking Gregory

What is a ratlike face and bad breath?

300

The Saint who reveals themselves to be Sister Clarice's Patron.

Who is Saint Michael?

300

The formal name for the sinkhole that forms in the town

What is Dimensional Cut?

300

What, aside from stars and clouds, does Sem see in the Fissure's sky?

What are rivers?

300

The original place that Sem was from before I moved her to England (double points if you can name the fictional town as well)

What is Barmouth, Newfoundland?

400

The three UK cities who required frequent maintenance on their Tube Mail systems

What are London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh?

400

The reason why sending stones from English soil are weaker.

What is because of Magic being brought there against his will?

400

The name of the theorist who described entering the Ether as a non-magical individual as 'a most cruel type of suicide'

Who is Janus Hoffman?

400

The instruction Sowyn gives Sem before she runs off at the beginning of the chapter

What is "if you find something waiting for you at the bottom, leave. I do not care if you have to leave the entire town's population behind to do it."

400

the reason why (not stated in text yet) Sowyn's jacket was not torn apart by the shards of glass.

What is dragon hide?

500

The incorrectly translated word in the Soul Contract, and what the original word was

What are Master and Friend?

500

the exact number of mirrors in the Caretaker's House

What is three thousand, six hundred and ninety seven?
500

The most significant piece of context into Sem's past offered in the prose (not dialogue) within chapter two?

What is 'they remembered the last time I had made a wall.'

500

The simile Sem uses to describe the unquenchable flames

What is 'blood of the sun'?

500

The stanzas of the Swoxwiam used in Chapter 1's opening excerpt.

What are 55 and 56?