Chapters 1-2
Placed or left in an isolated position (often dangerous)
Marooned
Having one's identity concealed, especially to avoid notice or formal attentions.
Incognito
Represented by or as if by painting or another visual image; portrayed. Represented or characterized in words.
Depicted
A braid, especially of hair or straw.
Plait
Small hills.
Hillocks
To effect, produce, bring etc. by or as by magic.
Conjure
Sumptuously furnished or appointed; luxurious.
Posh
Cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered etc. Inaccessible to ideas, influences etc.
Impenetrable
Long, thin, narrow strips of wood, metal etc. used for support.
Slatted
Rhythmic swing or cadence.
Lilt
A person engaged in the production of maps.
Cartographer
To examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
Scrutinized
Tightly drawn, tense, not slack; emotionally or mentally strained or tense.
Taut.
A facial expressed, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain etc.
Grimaced
A remaining, usually small part, quantity, number etc.; fragment or scrap remaining left over.
Remnants
Anything perceived or happening that is believed to foreshadow a good or evil event or circumstance in the future.
Omen
An impeding, stopping, or preventing.
Anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or actions; prompt/signal.
Cue
A woman noted for courageous acts of nobility of character.
Heroine
Having an irrational or disproportionate fear of being in small or confined places and being unable to escape.
Claustrophic
Authorization, sanction, or justification.
Warrant
Elaborately adorned, often excessively or showily so.
Oranately
an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced; something illusory, without substance or reality.
Mirage
To strengthen with some added piece, support or material.
Reinforced
Incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized. Not easily understood; mysterious.
Inscrutable