"Have you potting soil there as well? Caerisians! You can never get them out of the dirt. "Lady Elanna, you seem to have a plant growing out of your head," she crowed.
Every chance she gets, Loyce will remind Elanna of why she’s there, and that she comes from a land that is generally viewed, including by Elanna, as backward: Loyce still sees her as a prisoner, whereas the king has almost come to see her as an adopted daughter. Her only real problem comes from the king's daughter, Princess Loyce, who does not like Elanna-and especially doesn’t like her being treated well by the king. Furthermore, she sees her father's rebellion as foolish and labels the man he wishes to be king "the old pretender." She is relatively content in her life the king treats her well, providing her with an education and the means to follow her ambition of becoming a botanist.
Even though she knows that the king has said he will kill her if her exiled father sets foot beyond Caeris, she now resents Ruadan for not coming to rescue her.
Elanna was taken hostage at six years old by King Antoine as a punishment for a rebellion orchestrated by her father, Ruadan: he contested Antoine's right to the throne, believing that the king's ancestors took it unjustly, and that the crown should be given back to who Ruadan believes is the rightful heir-and who, in turn, would grant freedom to Ruadan and Elanna's homeland, Caeris.Īs the novel opens, all this is fourteen years in the past Elanna is now twenty, and her view of the world has been shaped by her new home at Antoine’s castle. This is what happens to Elanna Valtai, the main character in Callie Bates's debut fantasy novel, The Waking Land. What would you do if you had all of your preconceptions of the world challenged?
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