The harsh, prolonged winter starts burying houses, blocking roads, and killing off the sheep of the Chalk. Meanwhile, the Wintersmith continues to cover the land with Tiffany-shaped snowflakes. The teach him how to attach a moving target (themselves inside a suit of armor) But first the Feegles must teach Roland how to really use a sword since his expertise in swordsmanship is entirely from reading a book. Roland must descend into the underworld, guided by the Nac Mac Feegles, and awaken the real Lady Summer from her storybook slumber. Granny Weatherwax instructs the Nac Mac Feegles, who watch Tiffany closely to protect their 'big wee hag,' to find a Hero, namely her childhood acquaintance and incipient love interest, Roland. He makes himself a body out of these elements and pursues Tiffany, but without truly understanding that the last three lines of the poem are the key to being a human and not just a mixing of stray components. Learning a simple rhyme from some children about what basic elements comprise a human body, he sets off to gather the correct ingredients. The Wintersmith decides that the reason Tiffany will not be his is that he is not human.

The young witch Annagramma acquires Miss Treason's cottage, but she needs help from Tiffany and the other young witches before she can learn to cope on her own. Things get trickier for Tiffany when she discovers she has some of the Summer Lady's powers - plants start to grow where she walks barefooted, and the Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) appears, causing problems by spurting out food and animals.īefore the problem with Tiffany and the Wintersmith is resolved, Miss Treason dies (she was 111, but claimed to be 113 because she felt that 111 sounded adolescent). Granny Weatherwax demands that she throw her silver horse pendant into Lancre Gorge. The elder witches, including Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, discover that the Wintersmith has been tracking her. From then on, he uses the pendant to find her and deliver his gifts (delicate roses made of ice, her name written in frost on every window, Tiffany-shaped snowflakes, and icebergs in her shape). The Wintersmith uses the pendant to find Tiffany and give her back the pendant during their second encounter.

Unknowingly, Tiffany drops her silver horse pendant (a gift from Roland, the Baron's son) during the Dance. She finds herself face to face with the Wintersmith - winter himself - who mistakes her for the Summer Lady and falls in love with her. But when Miss Treason takes Tiffany to witness the secret dark Morris - the Morris dance (performed wearing black clothes and octiron bells) that welcomes in the winter, Tiffany finds herself drawn into the dance and joins in. Two years after the events of A Hat Full of Sky, Tiffany Aching, now 13 years old, is training with the witch Miss Treason.

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