forbidding". They then travel eastwards via teleportation with wild magic, watching the Worm of the World's End in the Sunbirth Sea as it draws towards the Land and Mount Thunder. Covenant instructs that the lurker block the Worm's senses with its sheer mass, thereby temporarily slowing it down; with the aid of the surviving and Waynhim, it does so successfully. Confident that he has done all he can, Covenant then heads back west with Branl. Meanwhile, following their victory against Infelice of the Elohim, Linden, Jeremiah, and Stave return to Mahrtiir and the Giants. Jeremiah wants to build a structure of malachite to hold and protect the Elohim from the Worm. After the Feroce arrive to forward Covenant's message and help her interpret it, Linden realizes that they will need the ancient Forestal lore of forbidding to keep the Worm from simply destroying the structure with all the Elohim inside. She makes a and travels back in time with Mahrtiir and their two Ranyhyn, intending to meet the Forestal Caer-Caveral. With no food and little sleep, Stave and the Giants exhaust themselves helping Jeremiah build the structure using malachite scavenged from the side of a massive ridge; Stave himself suffers disassociated mental exhaustion after struggling to knock down a large slab by himself while the Giants sleep. When the structure is finished, Infelice arrives and attempts to slay Jeremiah, claiming him to be an abomination, but is surprised to find that the structure he has built is not a jail, but a "fane" – a temple that they can choose to leave when they want. When she is informed by the Giants that they will stand by Jeremiah, Infelice acknowledges that the Elohim do not have friends and allows herself and the Elohim to be drawn inside. Jeremiah is possessed by Kastenessen in the same way that Anele was possessed by him, but Stave severely hurts himself by throwing Jeremiah onto the top of the structure, away from physical contact with the grass, breaking his possession. Kastenessen himself then appears and towers over the shrine; he raises his human fist (which was originally Roger Covenant's) in an attempt to destroy the shrine and all of the remaining Elohim in the world, but Lostson Longwrath emerges from behind a crater nearby and fulfills his geas by cutting off Kastenessen's hand. Kastenessen kills Longwrath, but before he can summon the Earthpower and