The Rivenwild Revealed: Book 2 - The Severing Cycle

The Gifted Lands have believed for a hundred years that the Rivenwild only takes. No one returns. No one is meant to.
Then a slate arrives at the Rim, carved with words that shouldn’t exist — and First Speaker Seradin Halveris must decide whether to protect a century of comfortable certainty, or the truth that’s about to break it apart.
Below the Drop, Veyra and the Gathered have begun building something the world above never imagined: a life. A community. A code. But the sky is changing, and their hiding time is running out.
When farsight confirms what no one wants to believe — fires, order, a settlement — the Gifted Lands send an expedition down the Rivenwild’s oldest rope, expecting to find desperate survivors clinging to the dark.
They find a people instead. And a woman who has learned to wield a terrible gift with a discipline that unsettles everyone who witnesses it.
As Wardens descend carrying orders no one has spoken aloud, and a sealed judgment seven souls deep threatens to unravel everything the Gifted Lands tell themselves about mercy, Veyra and Seradin are about to learn the same lesson from opposite ends of the same rope:
Some truths, once spoken, cannot be lowered back into the dark.
Continuing the story begun in Hollowed in Exile, this is epic fantasy for readers who want their moral stakes as high as their body count — where restraint is the real power, and every act of mercy costs something.