Inquest follows Bequests Tangea and Taynan as the Ylf-maid searches for what was lost to her at the fulfillment of the Prophecy. Leaving behind everything she had gained in Shiri-la, Tangea returns to the world of men to find a vastly different face on it, for time has passed in the world where it did not in Shiri-la, and with time comes the changes that it brings with its passing. Twenty years of changesMeanwhile, Taynanbanished to remain in the world of menbefriends a human boy. This friendship becomes his anchor against the suffocating sorrow and darkness that threatens to regain its hold on his mind. The boy grows through the years to be a king, and Taynans repressed magic suddenly resurfaces as he once more sees through prophetic eyes the demise, not of himself, but of his only friend in this world.Dark memories drive Taynan to protect his friend. He immerses himself among the sons and daughters of men, there finding that magic in this world is not as dead or unknown as he had thought it wasand neither is it undesirable. And now, as he struggles against the darkness for the light of Ylohyms magic, he must face the greatest temptation of all all the time unknowing that Tangea draws closer and following her is a very old and deadly danger