chapter 41 the black pit chapter 42 clean get-away chapter 43 the traveler chapter 44 forging the key chapter 45 soap , snakes , and bats chapter 46 the sleeper awakes chapter 47 the feathered serpent chapter 48 the plan chapter 49 transformation chapter 50 jungle rendezvous chapter 51 dannos chapter 52 epilogue about the author and other publications **** prologue ( a few years earlier ) dark one : raging , hateful , death bringer foul , cold , soulless , colorless , black abomination creeping out of time and space towards our light to vanquish life and love and reason are you to steal the future , and write fate in our dried , darkened blood ?