 We meet her at a place where she doesn't have her powers as she has come to know them. Tomi Adeyemi says this mirrors her own life. I'm finally at a place to tell people, like, I actually got really sick between book two and book three. And for about two of those years, I was recovering. And her personal path back to health is felt through Xaeli. And her fight to not getting her magic back as she knows it, but sort of breaking through