It would leave a grave for Crouch. I just don't know if such a cool character would be taken out of the story invisibly.

Maybe we'll get some flashbacks in the next book.

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Death smiled as she withdrew. Kill an army for me, Raif Sevrance. Any less and I just might call you back.

There is the possibility that some neighboring farmer or a villager buried the family. They may have simply buried the maiden not knowing she wasn't part of the family. 4 bodies, 3 graves (Little moo being buried with Dara). Angus would have known the difference between the maiden and Cassie. It also leaves Cassie very much adrift in a world she knows so very little about and no real purpose other than to find her father. Never a good thing.

True. Cassie not having a "vengeance" purpose is a possibility.

In any case, I think she'll be on the move, and we'll see her popping up with other characters. It's possible we've already seen her in Red Ice. Hmmm. That's a new thought.

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Death smiled as she withdrew. Kill an army for me, Raif Sevrance. Any less and I just might call you back.

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"The Alliance ain't the good guys. They're the opposing faction." ---Sam Shepherd or Stephen Howie

Yeah, you're probably right. It was more of a wishful thought than anything.

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hi, just new here and thought I would add my two cents on a question I've been puzzling over since the end of black ice...
I don't think she knows about Heritas Cant - my impression was that Angus never told his daughters anything that might harm them - knowledge of the name and whereabouts of a powerful magic user and member of the phage falls into this category, I think, so that rules out Cant.
Chasing the Maiden? Possibly - but I think Heavymetal makes an interesting point. We know how protective Crouch was of her hands - having them set on fire might have distrated her sufficiently for Cassie to get a chance to kill her. ALthough why, then would she bury the assassin? (possibly, being a smart young woman, she knew that if there were the right amount of graves everyone would assume she was also dead, ruling out future assassins hunting her).
No, I think that Cassie has gone looking for the only family she has left - her father and the Sevrances. Last she knew Angus and Raif were heading north, so I wouldn't be suprised to see her showing up at Blackhail asking for news of Angus, Raif or any Sevrance, for that matter.
Another thought - since she would be heading North, asking about Raif and possibly badly burned from the fire, what does anyone think of the possibility os her showing up at the Rift one of these days?