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Malfuria Trilogy
by Christoph Marzi

Malfuria – The Secret of the Sounding City
Volume 1 – Synopsis

Over the years the old woman Nuria Niebla drew many pictures and maps of mysterious value on parchment. Now she lives on an island with her pet raven, Ramon. However, "they" have entered the city, and there is no escape from "them" – icy shadows that fly into the eyes and orifices of anyone they encounter, taking over his or her body, killing spirit and soul. Just in time Nuria sends Raven away on a mission to fly across the sea to Cala Silencia in order to call Malfuria for help.

Malfuria is a "place" and a "storm" composed of raven feathers, a living, breathing creature, a shelter housing all the accumulated ancient knowledge of the witches who ever lived. It is a flying, ever-changing place to be, a very mysterious something indeed.

Catalina Soleado is a 14-year-old girl who lives in a windmill in Barcelona. After her father’s death – he drowned in the sea – her mother sent her here to be trained by the map maker Márquez, because Catalina wants to learn how to draw maps. She also has the ability to talk to the wind, El Cuento, who tells her stories about people all over the world.

The boy Jordi Marí lives in a lighthouse, helping his father, Malachai, to operate the lighthouse. However, Malachai is a drunk who regularly abuses his son. While his dad is sleeping and Jordi is cleaning the lights, the boy breaks an electric torch. So he hurries off to Barcelona to buy a new one before his father wakes from his stupor and beats him for breaking the precious electric torch. On his way Jordi notices a flying black galleon hovering on the horizon. The flying ship, which was sent by the Farfax Clan from Gibraltar, comes closer and sweeps past the lighthouse. Seeing the galleon The Meduza gives Jordi an uneasy feeling. He buys the last electric torch in a special supply store but drops it shortly thereafter when a stranger wearing black clothes and a harlequin mask collides with him in the street. The glass torch shatters. Jordi is shocked when he sees that the stranger has no face but only two pitch black eyes. Shadows flow from his eyes into the eyes of two passers-by. Immediately their eyes turn empty and fill with shadows as they walk on in a mysterious apathy.

After a day’s work Catalina’s master, the map maker, shows the girl the map her mother drew many years ago. When Catalina touches the map, it shows a certain date and changes right in front of their eyes, depicting the way the world looked on that date. It is a magic map that could predict the future. But right after dinner Márquez is attacked by a shadow man who has broken into the windmill where both, the map maker and his apprentice, Catalina, live and work. Márquez urges the girl to escape while she still can. She reluctantly runs up into her room and locks it from the inside, not wanting to leave her master and teacher behind, sensing that the shadow person will kill him. But then Márquez breaks down the door to her room. Dangerous shadows glimmer in his eyes while he is desperately trying to fight off his own shadow who is slowly taking over the power over him.Catalina escapes through the window and catches one of the wings of the windmill she has put into motion. But to her horror she sees half a dozen shadow people on the ground, just waiting for her. Then the wind, El Cuento, comes to her aid, tearing off the piece of the wing Catalina is clutching and flying through the air with it. The wing, her own creation of colorful cloth patches, carries her down into the streets of Barcelona – where she lands right on Jordi, who has just decided never to return to the lighthouse and his abusive father.

There are mysterious ice breakers everywhere in the streets of the city, disguised as harlequins. One shadow person is trying to catch Catalina and Jordi. With the help of the wind, they manage to escape on the flying carpet made of patches but are closely pursued by two shadow bats. El Cuento carries the children to Pla Cerdà but they are unable to shake off the bats. One of the animals bite Jordi into his hand, and it turns icy cold and black. To fend off the imminent danger of Jordi being turned into a shadow person, the wind carries them down to a garden party. While the party guests are staring with wide eyes at the two children on the flying carpet made of colorful patches, the wind takes them right through the flame of a torch. Jordi holds his attacked hand into the flame, thus burning off the poison of the shadows. Then El Cuento informs Catalina about his plan: She must open some seams of the patches. Those patches will then fly right through the fire of the torches, burning the bats in their pursuit. The patches are wild winds Catalina caught when she made the windmill wing of patches. By opening the seams she sets them free. Some of them, caught in the patches, are willing to sacrifice themselves in the process by being burned in the flames.

His plan works, and sad but freed from the shadow bats the two children continue their flight to the Casa de les Punxes (the ‘House of Needles’) in Pla Cerdà. There they open the rest of the seams and set the wild winds captured in the patches free. The young winds ascend in merry breezes up into the night sky.

Catalina and Jordi arrive at the House of Needles, which is a library. Firnis Cervantes, one of the few word interpreters, letter catchers and sentence setters of the city, welcomes the children into his realm of knowledge. He points out the small caterpillar-like insects and explains that they are bookworms that put together new books from the letters flying around the rooms. The books then grow in cocoons until they are ready to hatch. While his two assistants catch feisty little letters that have fallen out of books and are crawling and flying around all over the place, the children tell the librarian about the Meduza they sighted in the Port of Barcelona and about the harlequins turning the residents of Barcelona into shadow people.

In the meantime Karim Karfax receives the unlucky harlequin who let Catalina get away back in his chambers. Karfax is the loyal servant of La Sombria, the queen of all shadows. Karfax has been appointed Arxiduc, a position of great power. Touching the painting of the shadow queen on his wall endows him with the powers to kill the harlequin, turning him into another ice breaker.

Jordi and Catalina are shown to a room in the House of Needles. It only has one bed, and though Catalina offers the boy the upper half of the mattress, she finds him rolled up on the floor the following morning. Jordi has spent the whole night researching books in the library with the aid of the librarian and his two assistants. They came up with some clues to the current situation. In an old volume he found a fairytale about a city that was taken over by the shadows. The name of the city is Madrid. It does not exist; however, her found the city on an ancient map.

Yesterday during dinner Catalina, the young map maker, absentmindedly drew the House of Needles and its surroundings on the table. Doodling, she changes a few details outside. This morning they discover that the whole city district has changed according to her drawing. Jordi accuses her of being able to change the world by re-drawing it. She denies it because she had no idea of her dangerous talent. But the damage is done, there is chaos in the streets, and soon thereafter shadow people and harlequins pour into the Casa, destroy the old library. Once again the children are forced to flee. Firnis’ two library assistants are attacked by the shadow people. The loose letters Firnis has caught in his pockets form defensive battle words to shield the children from the attacks. The wind helps Catalina and Jordi to escape through the roof. The alleys are filled with shadow people, and the children are pursued by the two former library assistants who have turned into fierce shadow jackals. Catalina twists her ankle when she steps on a loose cobblestone. Jordi saves her by hiding her in a dark corner and setting their pursuers on his own trail away from the girl. But first he kisses her goodbye, and that kiss leaves both with the sensation that it must be love.

Jordi disappears against Catalina’s wish. Then she meets a strange harlequin who takes off his mask to reveal the face of a young man. Ramon Rocus is a raven cat sent by the girl’s grandmother, Nuria Niebla, who is still alive after all, having fooled the Arxiduc with a trick. Ramon offers Catalina an aquamarine in the color of the sea. It contains her memories of her grandmother. As soon as she touches the gem, she remembers Nuria and her happy childhood with her beloved grandmother. Her mother Sarita, who has witch powers, had erased Catalinas early memories for an unknown reason.

Meanwhile the wind shows Jordi where Catalina must be: on the Meduza in the Port of Barcelona.

Karfax plans to send out more and more galleons. Soon the shadows will take over the whole world and erase all colors and sunshine, the love and warmth of life.

Ramon tells Catalina that her mother Sarita sacrificed Catalina’s father to protect her daughter. She tricked Farfax by putting him on the wrong trail – her own mother Nuria, whom she dislikes. As the story goes, you have to sacrifice the being you love the most in order to save someone else dear to you. Catalina is shocked to find out that her mother knowingly sacrificed her husband, whom she loved even more than her daughter. There was a time when all witches came together in Malfuria to change the world by re-drawing the maps, so that the shadow people would have no more home (such as the City of Madrid that had been taken over by the shadows). Ramon also informs Catalina that she, too, has sacrificed the person she loves the most (Jordi) when she tried to save him. Something terrible is about to happen to him. The girl refuses to believe those horrible truths. The raven cat then lets her know that he sent for Malfuria, and that they will soon be picked up by the storm and be rescued.

On his way to the Meduza to find Catalina, Jordi is stung by a shadow moth. The effect is that he loses his emotions. Suddenly nothing and no one, not even Catalina, matter to him any more, and everything turns dull and grey.

Catalina waits with Ramon for Malfuria that will take them away from Barcelona. But first her mother, Sarita, shows up and gives her a big hug. The girl, overwhelmed by her longing for her mother who abandoned her in Barcelona years ago, believes Sarita’s narrative. Her mother tells her the opposite of the things Ramon had told her while Ramon is turning into a strange snarling creature in front of her eyes. As Sarita claims, her own mother, Nuria Nublia, was the witch who betrayed all other witches by making a pact with Farfax and the shadows. But then Catalina catches her mother with a lie and realizes that Sarita was the one who has made a pact with the shadows, turning on her own mother, daughter and the rest of the world. She has been sent by Farfax to gain access to Malfuria and its wealth of accumulated witch wisdom. Just in time Malfuria tears Sarita away from her daughter into the rubble of the cathedral the Medusa has just smashed into. Ramon is sacrificed in the process. Malfuria sweeps Catalina away, who is mourning over the lost life of the loyal raven cat, and carries her to Malfuria, where she wakes up in a cheerful room full of books. There she is welcomed by the witch Makris de los Santos, a woman her grandmother had told her to find, and by Agata la Gataza, head witch and the only resident of Malfuria.

Malfuria – The Guardian of the Misty Stones
Volume 2 – Synopsis

Kassandra Karfax, the Traveller, gets to the island of Eivissa where Nuria Niebla has supposedly died (we remember, she burnt herself just in front of the Shadows in part 1). Kassandra is looking for some trace to find out if Nuria is maybe alive, and where she might stay. She turns the survivors of the fire into her shadowy slaves – her face, made up of papery skin with letters running on it, seems so beautiful to the beholder but turns them mad as they can see their worst nightmares in her face.
Kassandra has an alliance with Sarita Soleado, Catalina’s mother. Only the three women of the Soleado family have the magic ability to draw and undraw reality. As LA Sombria (the Queen of Shadows) wants to make the world her own, she needs somebody to re-draw the maps of the world.

In the second plot line takes the reader to Catalina Soleado who was picked up by the storm of raven feathers in the Barcelona cathedral of Sagrada Familia, by Malfuria, in the last pages of the former part of the trilogy. She wakes up in Malfuria, way over the sea, travelling towards Eivissa in order to look for her grandmother Nuria Niebla. In course of this trip, she finds out more about Malfuria and the only persons living there: Agata La Gataza, the Protector of Malfuria, and Makris de los Santos who is not even a real witch. Also, Miercoles, the raven cat, is there. Malfuria is explained as the heart of "witchness". Catalina misses Jordi Mari a lot who has supposedly sacrificed himself to save her. She tries to persuade Agata to turn Malfuria back to Barcelona and look for Jordi which Agata declines.
Makris tells Catalina her story. She was born and brought up in Lisboa, ran away to become a witch, and came back to her family – who has been extincted by the galleys of the Shadows who where hunting down witches and their families.
Catalina also hears about a legend of Mephistia – a witch who will supposedly bring down Malfuria. And Agata thinks that Sarita is the one. Then, all of a sudden, the Armada of the Shadows appears and tries to hunt down Malfuria.

The third plot line leads us back to Jordi Mari who tries to flee the Shadows in a Barcelona which is already taken down by the Shadows. One of the Dark Butterflies (Finsterfalter) has bitten him, and so he has become quite shadowy himself – he cannot remember who he is, he cannot remember that he was so in love with Catalina, he cannot remember his past. But some strands of memory are still with him.
Jordi is running through Barcelona when suddenly he sees a man who is taken over by the Shadows (they run into his eyes etc.) but then – he coughs the Shadows right up and they leave the man again!! This is so highly unusual and promising, that, against a certain suspiciousness, he approaches the man who calls himself Kopernikus, and continues his flight with his new companion. In course of the flight, they have the idea to get to a lighthouse, and try to conquer the Shadows with the big lamps there in order to get some more time. The Meduza, the flagship of the Armada, is dripping down the "Threads of Shadow" over the city, which brings Barcelona more and more under the spell of the Shadows. On the lighthouse island, Jordi is really shocked to learn that he kind of knows his way around – and that the lighthouse keeper knows him! It is of course his father. Who helps him and Kopernikus get away from Barcelona in a little flying machine called Kolibri which Malachai Mari has built for this wife and himself to fly and be happy. But his wife has left him long ago – and now the reader hears for the first time that Ms. Mari has left in search for the city of Madrid – which doesn’t exist, as we remember from the first part! After she left him, Malachai became the drunkard we know from part 1. After some dramatic events and heart-breaking scenes, he sacrificies himself to get Jordi and his new "friend" Kopernikus up in the air and going away from Barcelona. Jordi does still not entirely trust Kopernikus, he has the feeling that Kopernikus is keeping something from him.

In the meantime, Catalina gets more and more into self-accusation about leaving Jordi in Barcelona. She tries again and again to get Agata La Gataza to turn back to Barcelona. And of course, does not succeed. So she starts to feel a little dislike towards her – and also, she is not sure of Agata’s ulterior motives. Then, they reach the island where Catalina’s grandmother has lived in the last years, the storm of raven feathers is dropping Catalina and Makris off on the island (whose set-up has been altered since Catalina has last seen a map of the island when she was still with Arcadio Marquez, the map maker), and of course, Kassandra Karfax has set up a trap on the island – Harlekins and galleys hunt them, and they get stuck on a piece of beach where a Culebra, a kind of rattlesnake, bites Makris. Whoever gets bitten by a culebra, will turn into stone slowly. Catalina is devastated, and so is Makris. They get picked up by the feathers, and Makris asks Catalina not tell Agata that she has been bitten by the snake, as Agata does not want to have anything tainted in Malfuria – she is to concerned for the heart of witchness.
Catalina is getting the notion that every use of magic has its price. She is thinking more and more about this. As they do not know where else to look for Nuria, Catalina always has the words in her head "Every magic has its price" on and on. So she is finally getting an idea: she still has the aquamarine her grandmother has given her through Ramon the raven cat – and she thinks she can make it tell her something. As every magic has its price, and normally the price hurts a lot – she goes to the fireplace and holds her hand into the fire, with the aquamarine in her hand. Which burns the letters LISBOA in her hand. So this is the clue Nuria has left in the stone, and they head for Lisboa.

In the meantime, Jordi and Kopernikus (who is an excellent navigator, and knows a whole lot about getting around in an air ship – and admits that he has been the navigator of the Meduza!) fly into the "sighing storms" and are captured by a kind of flying pirate ship. There, they meet Kamino Regalado (the ship girl) and her boss, Santiago Corsario Cortez. They all get into the storm, some shadow ships hunt them, and Kamino Regalado who is sometimes more than just a bit snappish, gets touched by a shadow during the hunt. Jordi gets Kopernikus to help as he already managed to get rid of the Shadows in his body – and he succeeds here to! Jordi is amazed, and bugs his new friend to tell him more about himself – so he finds out that Kopernikus is in reality – Karim Karfax!!! Who has (supposedly) turned to the "good" side!

Kassandra Karfax and Sarita Soleado have teamed up a very long time ago – and they are able to follow the movements of Malfuria, as they have a lot of Culebra snakes in their wake. And a Culebra can always trace down persons who have been bitten by one of their kind. So the Traveller and the witch are able to trace Malfuria down to Lisboa. They also talk about their plan to give the newly rising Queen of the Shadows, La Sombria, a new world. And that therefore, Nuria and Catalina have to do the deed of changing the outlooks of the world, and then die. Sarita is convinced that Nuria will approach Catalina somewhere in Lisboa.

Jordi and the crew of the pirate ship also head for Lisboa as they hope to get some spare parts there, which they need to fix the ship. Kamino (who is in love with Santiago, of course) becomes more and more of a good friend to Jordi.

All plot lines come together in Lisboa. Catalina and Makris visit an old friend of Makris’, Fado Mariza, who can maybe help Makris with her Culebra bite. She is turning into stone slowly already. Fado knows a lot of old stories and legends, those, which have not been written down, and so Catalina gets the gist that the bad is not always entirely bad, and that the good can also be a little bad. Everything has its two faces. Fado has a tame Culebra herself, and she knows some tricks to get rid of the venom, and sends the two witches to the market. Where of course Catalina meets Jordi – who cannot remember her at all! So she runs away from him, and meets the Traveller who is there to do mischief. Kassandra makes Catalina so mad of Agata La Gataza, and turns her mind, so that in the end, Catalina is drawing up a map of the insides of Malfuria – and turns it! So she is, in the end, the Mephistia who destroys Malfuria!

Perez and Reverte are at Lisboa too, and they still hate Catalina and Jordi a lot.
So they again try to hunt down Catalina, Jordi who remembers everything after Catalina has run away (he finds the aquamarine and touches it), tries to distract them again, like he did in Barcelona. Then, an old woman starts to talk to him – she was following the aquamarine he has picked up. It is, of course, Nuria Niebla. She has some stones with her which she drops on the floor, and a lof of fog is coming from them. They disappear. Catalina talks some more to Kassandra Karfax, the woman with the papery skin – she seems to be made of vellum. Kassandra wants to take Catalina to Barcelona where Sarita and La Sombria are waiting for her to do the bad deed. But then, El Cuento, her friend the wind, comes from out of nowhere, and blows the papery woman into the fire burning nearby. So Catalina gets away with the help of her friend. Makris and Kamino have fled together with an airship. Then El Cuento has also brought another old friend: the Shadow Arkadio Marquez, the map maker. They take her to the City of Night and Nowhere (explained before – there is not only "Lisboa and Light" but a kind of analogous "City of Night and Nowhere") – there, Nuria Niebla is waiting for Catalina...

Malfuria – The Queen of the City of Shadows
Volume 3 – Synopsis

Prolog: The lonely young girl Kassandra Karfax cuts out the silhouette of her own shadow with a silver coin stolen from the Witch Agata in order to gain a friend. Her shadow comes alive and turns on Agata.

The young map maker, Catalina, has destroyed Malfuria, the haven of witch wisdom and storm made of raven feathers, with a few lines of her pen. She has the power to change the world by drawing it differently. Catalina is longing for Jordi, her true love. She must find her grandmother, Nuria Niebla, who can help her to undo the damage she has done and to prevent the end of Lisboa in time. A whole armada of flying black galleons sent by the Farfax Clan has just begun to attack Lisboa; the residents of the city flee from the harlequins that step off the flying ships. The shadow men dressed in black and a harlequin mask have the power to turn every living being they touch into shadow beings.

Catalina’s grandmother, Nuria, has found Jordi in the streets of Lisboa and swept him off to take him to another witch in order to get him out of danger. But the love-struck boy wants to accompany her in her search for her granddaughter whom he can’t stop thinking of. Suddenly it rains tiny stars from the dark sky. Smiling, Nuria says that Catalina must be thinking of Jordi – and he of her, since love has the power to touch the heavens.

They go to Fado Marita’s witchcraft store, where Nuria wants to drop off the boy. A flood of shadow cockroaches make their way into the store, ready to attack the two witches and Jordi. Nuria pours a liquid onto the floor and sets in on fire. This keeps the cockroaches off for a few moments, but not for long. Nuria, who can walk through fire, keeps the shadow insects at bay, but then she is burned alive by the flames she set.

The shadow of Catalina’s old teacher, the map maker Márquez, is still alive after Márquez was attacked and presumably killed by a harlequin. Márquez’s shadow approaches Catalina and talks to her while she is waiting for Nuria in the alleys of Lisboa. When Nuria fails to show up, Márquez shows the young girl the rose ivy that covers an old well. He tells her to touch the leaves. They open up to reveal the City of Shadows underneath. It is still there, but it will soon shift to another spot on Earth.

Catalina follows Márquez’s shadow down into the well, in turn followd by Miércoles, a flying raven cat. A harlequin – also called a ‘whisperer’ – pursues them. As the girl notices, everything is upside down in the City of Shadows, and when ascending into the well, she is actually climbing up not down. The City of Shadows is the ‘other side of the paper’, as Márquez’s shadow has explained to her. Márquez’s shadow plans to hinder the harlequin from pursuing Catalina. Again she is forced to leave her old tutor behind while entering the City of Shadows.

Dark threads sent by the flying galleon The Meduza reach like thick tentacles for the living beings. One such shadow tentacle grabs Jordi. The dark threads turn into lightning, and sighing storms are coming closer. Jordi makes it to the harbor where Kamino Regalado and Kopernikus save him by throwing a thick rope with a cube out to him and pulling him up into their flying vessel, the Falcon. Kamino is a ship mate Jordi met earlier; she is in love with Captain Santos who is oblivious of her feelings for him.

Then Captain Santos carries out his plan to stop the armada of flying galleons from reaching Lisboa. He empties several barrels of Andalusian oil into the sea. This special oil gains in volume by itself and is flammable. He sets it on fire, and it eats its way through the swimming galleon city on the surface of the ocean.

Meanwhile Catalina had to watch in horror while the whisperer has almost drained her old teacher’s shadow. Once again she feels great sorrow for his loss while returning to the windmill where she and Márquez used to live and work. Like all other buildings of Lisboa, the windmill is still there in this City of Shadows.

To her surprise she finds out that the flying cat Miércoles can talk. He tells her, “We will solve the mysteries.” As he uncovers to Catalina, he is no less than a sphinx.

Jordi and the other passengers of the Falcon fly off towards Marrakesh. Jordi calls the wind, El Cuento, whom he met through Catalina who is able to communicate with the wind. Since Jordi does not understand El Cuento, he finds a way to question the wind anyhow by asking him only yes-or-no questions. Every time the answer is yes, El Cuento blows into his face. Jordi finds out that Catalina is still alive and not alone. The gypsy witch Makris de los Santos, who is also on board of the Falcon, was bitten by a snake while looking for Nuria Niebla on Eivissa. Now Makris is slowly turning into stone. Her arm is already covered with gems, and her eyes have turned into aquamarins.

Kassandra Karfax meets with Sarita. Sarita is shocked when she notices the cold features of La Sombria.

Inside the windmill Catalina is looking for the magic map her mother Sarita drew. The map is alive, and whenever she touches the date written on it, it depicts the world according to the way it really changed over the centuries. Then the girl discovers a hole behind the map on the wall. The secret compartment in the wall contains a lot of paper sheets and rolls of parchment with drawings and maps on them. One drawing depicts a hand, pen and ink. Catalina cautiously retraces the lines, and the hand becomes alive. It paints one picture after another. The pictures tell the story of Sarita’s childhood. She ran away from her mother, Nuria, who used to lock the girl away to keep her from carrying out her dangerous craft. Sarita can change things by redrawing them, just like her own mother and daughter can. After running away from home, Sarita ended up in the City of Shadows with Kassandra. The City of Shadows was a colorful and merry place. She became an apprentice of Márquez the map maker and, because of the fierce hatred she feels for her mother, she took Kassandra’s side because Kassandra was her mother’s opponent.

On its flight to Marrakesh the Falcon encounters a mosquito flyer who offers his help to the captain and Kopernikus. However, when the sun hits the mosquito’s eyes, they notice the silver coins in his sockets – the feature of the shadow people on the Meduza. The mosquito flyer tells them that he comes from the House of Karfax. This angers Kopernikus, who used to be the evil Karim Karfax himself before he was destroyed. He swiftly kills the mosquito with his sword.

Catalina and the cat/sphinx fly in the windmill to the House of Needles, the library. The shadow of the librarian, Firnis, is still residing there. He welcomes the girl as warmly as the first time despite the fact that Catalina destroyed his former life and the library with a few careless lines drawn on the dinner table a few days ago.

The canons of the galleons attack the Falcon. Makris, Captain Santos and Kamino crash into the desert. Jordi and Kopernikus who have taken the small aircraft Kolibri to redirect the attack of the galleons, crash into the sand as well.

Inside the House of Needles the bookworms that collect the single letters flying around and the cocoons that turn into new books are dying. But then the young purple book of poetry whose birth Catalina witnessed during her first visit to the library pipes up. He tells Catalina how she may undo all the damage she has done – through letters. The little book is dying himself urging Catalina to hurry up. Suspecting that it is a work of La Sombria herself, Catalina then rubs off the letters of the ‘Chronicle of the City of Shadows’. Catalina believes that this chronicle must apply to all cities since Kassandra is La Sombria’s sister. So whatever is true for the City of Shadows must also be true for any city in the real world of light.

A doorknob appears underneath the letters of the book. When Catalina turns the doorknob, letters start crawling up her sleeve and all over her body. She can see the world – rather many worlds – while covered in letters. She sees the world from Kassandra’s perspective and knows that she has done the right thing, when the sun is suddenly shining again.

Kassandra has killed Kopernikus who was her own son. Jordi lies on the ground. Then Catalina appears, while Jordi is kneeling in the sand of the desert. Even Sarita is there for the showdown with her own mother, Nuria Niebla.

For a moment it looks as if Nuria and Sarita are about to attack each other, ready for the kill. But then they join forces to undraw the galleons and then Malfuria as well which has recollected. Kassandra drops down, apparently dead.

Then Nuria is stung by a scorpion, and Sarita is bitten by a sand spirit. As the price for using their special talent, both had to sacrifice the one they loved the most, which was each other, as it turns out.

With a few strokes Catalina rejoins Kassandra’s shadow La Sombria with Kassandra. This will undo all the damage Kassandra has done by cutting off her own shadow and bringing it to life. However, suddenly Jordi tears the pen out of Catalina’s hand when Cassandra comes to live again. There are shadows in the boy’s eyes.

The world has changed, the last map maker dies, and everything has become the past.

The girl Catalina wakes up in the windmill. She finds her true love Jordi by her side – as well as the cat Miércoles. Everything is alright while the City of Shadows is still moving.