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Storans plan a secret attack on the palace in order to kill King Bjorn, which Miri thwarts by warning Peder through quarry-speaking. Though their plan to kill King Bjorn has failed, the Storans decide to use the girls as bait to lure the king into a trap. Miri, Britta, Astrid, Felissa, and Sus are thrown into a cell and treated horribly by the Storans, but meet King Fader's son, Kaspar, who has become the next king of Stora. He and Sus are close in age, and Sus proposes that they become betrothed in order to stop the war. Kaspar accepts, and a peace treaty is signed. The girls reunite with the royals and Peder and return to the palace.
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a bride to Stora's King Fader. He asks Miri to travel to Lesser Alva, where three of his cousins live, to be their tutor and prepare them to come to Asland and meet the king. Despite the king's threats, Miri bargains that she will accept on the condition that she and the other graduates of Mount Eskel's
Princess Academy become the owners of the land in their province. The king agrees, and Miri travels to Lesser Alva, a swampy area of Danland.
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when she was at the princess academy on Mount Eskel. He tells her to figure out a way to free Lesser Alva, cuts her hair to change her appearance, and frees her. Later that night, Peder arrives and informs the girls that Stora has successfully invaded Asland. He helps them escape via a pirate ship. When they are intercepted by Storan sailors, Astrid pretends to be one of King Fader's daughters and successfully convinces the
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food, they have time to learn how to read, and Miri establishes a princess academy in their small linder home in the swamp. The sisters become sad when they learn that one of them must marry a 72-year-old king. Meanwhile, Miri writes letters to Peder and to Marda, her sister, that are never received. Peder has left Mount Eskel to search for Miri and see if she is safe.
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to their attention in order to alert them to events of the present. Because she and the other
Eskelites have linder in their bones - after breathing in its dust and drinking water containing it - they are able to quarry-speak whenever they come in contact with linder. The "lowlanders" - those not from Mount Eskel - are unable to detect the messages. However, in
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To stop the Storan invasion, Miri and Britta, Steffan's wife, escort the sisters to meet King Fader, only to learn that he has died. They realize the
Storans had invaded on the pretense that King Bjorn had deceived Stora with the promise of a princess for a bride when he supposedly had no daughters.
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When the ship arrives in Asland, the five of them jump overboard and retreat from the
Storans. They break into the palace and find Queen Sabet, who immediately recognizes Astrid, Felissa, and Sus as the daughters she was forced to give away. Miri realizes that they are indeed princesses, with Astrid
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Miri is about to leave Asland to return home to Mount Eskel when she is summoned by the king, who explains that the neighboring kingdom of Eris has been conquered by Stora. In order to secure a good relationship with Stora and avoid war, the king has decided to establish a princess academy and offer
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When Storan soldiers invade Lesser Alva, Miri, Astrid, Felissa, and Sus try to keep the sisters' royal identities a secret from the troops. When Miri tries to help a man the soldiers execute, they capture her, but she is rescued by a man named
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Queen Sabet dismisses the chief delegate who took her daughters away from her and Britta is appointed the new chief delegate. The princesses are welcomed into the palace, and
Steffan steps down as crown prince in favour of Astrid, who is the first-born in the family. Miri and Peder return home to
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Miri meets the three royal cousins - Astrid, Felissa, and
Susanna, nicknamed "Sus." The girls hunt and fish to survive; their promised money from the king stopped coming when their mother died. Miri finally helps them banish the man who has been stealing their money. Now that they are able to buy
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Steffan's older twin sister, and is outraged that the sisters were taken from their family out of fear that they would overthrow their brother, as a previous succession war had occurred between a royal twin sister and brother in Danland.
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Mount Eskel. Miri is reunited with her Pa and Marda, and tells them that the king has given the graduates of the princess academy ownership of Mount Eskel. The village celebrates, and Miri and Peder become betrothed.
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