Discovery
CHAPTER ONE
And the wind went out to meet with the sun . . .
. . . At the dawn when the night was done.
Gale reunites with Dawn, and they make a sunrise oath.
CHAPTER TWO
And he racked the clouds in lofty disdain . . .
. . . As they flocked in his airy train.
Gale starts working at the café, meeting Alain, Hortus, Charlotte, and Selene.
CHAPTER THREE
And the earth was grey, and grey was the sky . . .
. . . In the hour when the stars must die.
Gale has a date with Dawn at La Ronde, but instead spends the day with Tara.
CHAPTER FOUR
And the moon had fled with her sad, wan light . . .
. . . For her kingdom was gone with night.
Gale discovers discipline and art through Selene, and figures out her lies.
CHAPTER FIVE
Then the sun upleapt in might and in power . . .
. . . And the worlds woke to hail the hour.
Gale isolates himself, and only Charlotte is there for him. When he sees Dawn again and satisfies their sunrise oath, his obsession pushes the doctor away.
CHAPTER SIX
And the sea streamed red from the kiss of his brow . . .
. . . There was glory and light enow.
Gale's search for Dawn puts off Alain, but earns the sympathy of Hortus. Selene is angry at Gale's treatment of Charlotte, and reveals she is a witch. She curses him to be bound to his greatest lie, though he knows not yet what it is.
CHAPTER SEVEN
To his tawny mane and tangle of flush . . .
. . . Leapt the wind with a blast and a rush.
Gale is despondent and lonely after knowing that Dawn is not real, and is heartbroken to hear of a tragedy back home. In a drunken manic episode on Christmas, he falls into the Saint Lawrence River. Someone jumps after him into Alexandra Basin.
CHAPTER EIGHT
In his strength unseen, in triumph upborne . . .
. . . Rode he out to meet with the morn!
Gale wakes up in a hospital room, and during the last days of the year makes amends to his new friends. He also meets the real beautiful stranger again for the first time in seven years, and she promises to tell him her name when he is discharged on New Year's Day.