Afterwards, he begins studying with Relius to learn how to read and write. Eventually, he is forgiven after helping Eugenides make an offering to the goddess Ula in order to heal the queen. When Pheris's betrayal is revealed, he is shunned by the other attendants, and it is only the intervention of the gods that prevents Eugenides from dismissing him. Baron Erondites then uses that information to ambush and destroy the supply wagons. During the Festival of Moira, his brother Juridius threatens him in order to learn when the grain stockpiles will be transported. Since the court assumes that Pheris cannot understand, they speak freely in front of him, and he overhears a great deal of sensitive or private information. Pheris gradually becomes accustomed to life in the royal court, accompanying Eugenides while he is carrying out his duties. Most of the palace servants and the royal court are horrified and disgusted by him, but Eugenides refuses to send him back. The king hopes to raise Pheris to be loyal to him, but Erondites intends to eventually kill Pheris and replace him with his younger brother Juridius. One day, he is abruptly taken from his home and brought to the palace to be an attendant to the king.

Pheris, the oldest grandson of Baron Erondites, is born physically disabled and spends most of his childhood isolated from the world. Return of the Thief is divided into two volumes, both narrated from a first-person point of view by Pheris, the disabled grandson of Baron Erondites. Features a cast list of the characters in the Queen’s Thief novels, as well as two maps-a map of the world of the Queen’s Thief, and a map exclusive to this edition. The New York Times–bestselling Queen’s Thief novels are rich with political machinations, divine intervention, dangerous journeys, battles lost and won, power, passion, and deception. As the treacherous Baron Erondites schemes anew and a prophecy appears to foretell the death of the king, the ruthless Mede empire prepares to strike.

Neither accepted nor beloved, Eugenides is the uneasy linchpin of a truce on the Lesser Peninsula, where he has risen to be high king of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis.

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