SEQUEL to The Wolf in December. Beacon's second semester begins, and its newest professor is faced with several challenges, not least of which is figuring out exactly what he's teaching. But teaching may be the least of his worries, with the forces now at work across Remnant. A storm is brewing, and Geralt will face it as he always has-with research, preparation, and silver.

Taylor Hebert had a bad day, and came out of it changed. Some parahumans can control bugs. Some can build advanced technology. Some can do unspeakable things to space and time. Taylor can make magic rings, wondrous metals, mysterious weapons, and may not be a parahuman (or, indeed, human) at all.

The end of the world is quite difficult to organize, inexorable though it may be. Humans have gotten pretty good at delaying it. But you can only run so far. With Yggdrasil crumbling, Mjollnir stolen, and Jormungandr betraying his father, Hiccup Haddock II has left his descendant plenty to deal with. But if he can't do it, no one can, partly because there'll be no one left to try.