Throne of Glass Chapters 33–36 Summary & Analysis

Summary: Chapters 33–36

Chapter 33

Kaltain is smoking opium when Duke Perrington arrives at her chambers. She quickly sprays perfume around herself and goes to meet him. She moves in a daze, foggy with headache, to greet him. A strange thing happens as he is speaking to her—she suddenly cannot hear, and his skin and eyes appear to harden into stone. The trance passes, and a moment later she sees clearly again. Perrington compliments her and says the prince thinks she is clever. He mentions Dorian’s supposed relationship with Lady Lillian, and Kaltain resolves to prove to Dorian that Lillian is not who she says she is.

Celaena is studying books on Wyrdmarks when Nehemia enters her room, sobbing. She tells Celaena that word has arrived that a legion of Adarlan’s Army caught and massacred a band of five hundred Eyllwe rebels. Celaena holds Nehemia as she sobs and feels the weight of the tragedy.

Chapter 34

Celaena is in her room, suffering from intense menstrual cramps that have finally returned since her year of malnutrition and physical abuse in Endovier. Philippa is tending to her when Chaol strides in. He is unaware of the root of her illness, and appears to be trying to ask her something emotional and important when she vomits violently. She tells Chaol that she is on her period and he leaves, embarrassed. A little while later Dorian comes in having heard of her condition from Chaol. She tells him to leave but he calls her beautiful, and the two end up talking about Nehemia and their mutual sadness at the state of the world and the war. They begin to subtly reveal that they care about each other.

Chapter 35

Chaol watches, unseen, as Celaena and Dorian walk through the castle grounds. He contemplates his conflicting feelings for her—he is beginning to trust her, to like her, and worries if doing so will prove to be a mistake.

As Celaena walks with Dorian, she thinks about how she hasn’t seen Elena in three weeks; in that time, three more Champions have been murdered. Six Champions remain, and the final duel is approaching. Dorian notices Elena’s amulet around Celaena’s neck, and recognizes it as the Eye of Elena. He guesses, though, that it is just a replica, as the original is extremely old and likely lost. Back in her room, Celaena searches under her bed for a dropped book and realizes that the floor beneath her bed is covered in chalk drawings of Wyrdmarks. She is seized with fear, and scrubs them all off. At midnight she returns to the library, where she runs into Nehemia reading a very old book. When Celaena asks how she’s reading such a dense book in the common language, Nehemia tells her off, shocking Celaena by speaking the common tongue perfectly, without any accent, before stalking off. After Nehemia leaves, Celaena finds a drawing of a Wyrdmark where Nehemia was sitting, and begins to suspect that Nehemia could be behind the evil that is killing Champions.

Chapter 36

It is Yulemas morning, three days before the last test and five before the final duel. Celaena wakes feeling peaceful despite her encounter with Nehemia, and finds on her pillow a giant bag of candy. She gobbles up half of the bag, the candy turning her teeth red and causing Philippa to laugh at her. Dorian enters with a basket for her, and Celaena discovers that he has brought her the puppy she demanded be saved, and that he was the one that gave her the candy. Celaena accepts his gift and immediately bonds with the animal. She kisses Dorian on the cheek as he is leaving, and he says he’ll come to her rooms after the ball that night if Nehemia doesn’t get there first. After he leaves, Celaena realizes that if her suspicions are correct, Nehemia may use the ball as an opportunity to attack a mass number of the royal court. Celaena resolves to go to the ball, despite having been forbidden from attending by Dorian and Chaol.

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