The Scale of Legends

Thallin Braywater has begun to build a life in the world beyond the Facility. He has work, friends, a teacher - and a road between the two places he has come to think of as home.

Ressa, an Outrider of Clan Varkesh, sees something else: a poorly trained traveller using an old route through dangerous country, carrying knowledge he should not have and guarding a secret worth uncovering. She thinks he will be easy to handle. She is wrong. Their confrontation leaves Ressa badly injured, Thallin shaken, and a magical connection between them that neither understands and neither can simply cut away. Thallin has every reason to leave her behind. Instead, he carries her to the one place he has spent months trying to keep hidden.

Now the Facility must treat an enemy, protect its secrets, and discover what happened when Ressa's magic reached into Thallin's pathways - and found something far larger than either of them expected.

As the echo between them fades, one question becomes impossible to ignore:

What does it mean to carry the power of a legend when you still have the skill of a beginner?

The Scale of Legends is the fourth book in Thallin's Journey, a science-fantasy story of power without mastery, consent and consequence, ancient science, living magic, and the danger of discovering that you are far more extraordinary than you ever wanted to be.