Cedren is an assistant Awakener creating lifeless for the God King's army. Forced to apprentice to Ithirra, a social outcast, all seems lost until they do the unthinkable: create a lifeless that can think and talk. Will the discovery be the breakthrough Cedren's been waiting for? Or is it a line that should never have been crossed? Frankenstein set in the Cosmere (kinda).

Poem: Despite being a Returned, Lightsong was far from content in eternal life.

Denth might not believe he deserves redemption. Vasher is tired of loss and he already killed one friend