Still, there is something that is not quite right with the situation, and soon Kira cannot avoid the truth. Kira's one desire is to find woad, the plant that will allow her to make blue thread, the one colour lacking in the spectrum available to her. Thomas as an exquisite carver, and he is assigned to work on the Singer's staff. She has friends as well: Matt, a scruffy boy from the Fen, a poverty-stricken area, who visits with his dog, Branch, and Thomas, a boy Kira's age who also lives under the care of the Guardians. She is comfortably housed, well-fed, clean and safe. Instead, she will remain under the protection of the Guardians, and her only task will be to mend, maintain and eventually further embellish the robe of the Singer, the individual who sings annually the history of her people.Īt first, Kira is relieved and grateful. She is afraid that she will be sent to her death in the Field, but her remarkable skill at embroidery saves her. Now Katrina is dead of a mysterious illness, and Kira faces judgment from the Council of the Guardians, since her lame leg hinders self-sufficiency and makes her a burden to her society. Her mother, Katrina, widowed before Kira's birth, refused to relinquish her, and so Kira was spared. In Kira's mind, her damaged leg should have haunted her at birth to exposure in the Field, the place where the dead, deformed or seriously injured are brought.
Gathering Blue is the second book in The Giver Quartet.
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