By Mark Gilbert. Warning: One occasion of strong language and scenes of a sexual nature. Three years have passed since Northshire burned, and I was driven from my homeland. Three years for the pain of Meirrens death to fade, and the power it awoke in me to ripen. I even have what could pass for a family. But, if there is one thing I have learned, it is that good things, never last. - Zemeth Thaenor The second of the five planned chapters in the tale of Zemeth and Zalek Thaenor, concludes the origin story and lays the threads of what this series is ultimately moving towards. Life for the Thaenor brothers will never be the same.