Prologue -- The tilt of ice -- A shadow king -- Theo's discovery -- The encounter -- Yearning -- A gathering of gadfeathers -- A deadly plan -- The passion of Ygryk -- Facts of life -- A distressed pygmy -- The Snow Rose meets Elka -- So near but yet so far -- "I know you" -- Mother -- A wolf howls -- The Hagsfiend of the Ice Narrows -- A seedling -- At last, the beyond -- What Hoole saw -- Two wolves head north -- On the Island of Dark Fowl -- Svenka's trek -- Into a Smee Hole -- A wolf waits -- The Scimitar and the ember -- The ember beckons -- Into a new night -- Epilogue.