He tells Adelina that he and his supporters have brought her to Estenzia, the port capital city of Kenettra. The masked figure turns out to be the mysterious Enzo from the previous chapter. As the locusts distract the Inquisitors, a masked figure appears on the stage and rescues Adelina. Before the flames begin to incinerate her, Adelina uses her powers unwittingly again, creating an illusion of locusts in the sky. The Lead Inquisitor of Kenettra, Teren Santoro, is present and is the one to set Adelina’s pyre on fire.

There, a jeering crowd awaits, eager to watch her execution. Members of the Inquisition Axis, Kenettra’s police force, enter her cell and take her above ground. Enzo gives no outward reaction to the contents of the letter, but simply decides its time to move out.īack in Dalia, time has run out for Adelina. While Adelina waits for her unjust judgment day in the Dalia prison, we visit briefly with Enzo Valenciano, who has just received a letter via dove from someone named “The Messenger”. His horse is what kills him, not Adelina. These figures startle her father, which causes him to crash into his horse.

While they struggle, Adelina produces black nightmarish figures from the earth. Her father catches up to her in the storm and they fight. Rather than be sold off like cattle before she if of age, Adelina runs away. Both Adelina and Violetta’s are both survivors of the illness mentioned in the epigraph, now known as the blood fever, but only Adelina bears marks of its ravages on her body.Īdelina’s father arranges to sell her off to an older tradesman. Adelina flashes back to the night of her father’s death and we learn about her dysfunctional relationship with him and her sister, Violetta. She has been accused of killing her father, Sir Martino Amouteru. After a brief epigraph in which a deadly and mysterious illness is discussed, The Young Elites opens in the mythical country of Kenettra with 16 year-old Adelina Amouteru sitting in a prison cell.

The young elites by marie lu