An evil cannibal approached Marra, but she hid in the pit of bones with her nettle cloak and avoided detection. Marra found a charnel pit full of bones and dug through the bones to find the remnants of a dog. Most of the cursed people were kind to Marra, but they warned her about the evil ones who were still hungry for the flesh of humans. Next, Marra went to the blistered land, which was cursed because its residents had to resort to cannibalism when they started to starve. She asked for help killing a prince, and the dust-wife set her three impossible tasks: “sew a cloak of owlcloth and nettles, build a dog of cursed bones, and catch moonlight in a jar of clay.” Marra sewed the nettle cloak successfully, even though doing so cut her fingers to the bone. With the nuns’ blessing, Marra left the convent and found the most powerful dust-wife in the land. However, Marra decided that she wanted to help her sister, so she got the idea to seek out a dust-wife, a type of witch who worked in graveyards and spoke to the dead. She insisted that nothing could be done for Kania. After she left, Marra told her mother what she had learned, but her mother already knew. Kania confided to Marra that the prince beat her and would probably kill her once she produced a male heir. Marra returned to the Northern Kingdom for the funeral and saw that her sister had bruises on her wrist.
A few months later, when Marra was 30, a plague swept through the world and killed Marra’s niece. Kania told Marra that if anything happened to her, Marra should avoid marrying the prince at all costs. When Kania finally gave birth to her first daughter, Marra and her mother went to visit her. Marra loved being at the convent and working with the nuns.
Marra, meanwhile, was sent to a convent so that she would not have any children before Kania did. A year later, the prince married Marra’s only remaining sister, Kania. However, six months later her body was returned because she had fallen to her death on accident. In order to create peace for the Harbor Kingdom, Marra’s mother arranged for her eldest sister, Damia, to marry the prince of the Northern Kingdom. Marra was born in the Harbor Kingdom, a small kingdom located right between the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom, who were at war with one another. The novel is narrated in third-person past with a narrator who focuses on the protagonist, Princess Marra. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Kingfisher, T.
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