Almina

Almina, Minalan and Alya's second child and first daughter, is born. She is "a healthy baby girl, even larger than her brother, with the most perfectly exquisite bright blue eyes." Lorcus vows half-seriously to slay any man who ever touches her.

Almina is an infant whose fate Minalan uses to imagine Kasari parents' grief when he considers what the refugee trek means for every family along the road.

Almina is still a nursing infant with Alya.

Almina is mentioned in Alya's nursing context.

Almina is now about three. She is a fearful child who "enjoys being scared too much to attack" — in gentle contrast with her adventurous older brother Minalyan.

Almina is a young child of the household. At the book's climactic family reunion she hugs Minalan alongside Minalyan and her newly-introduced half-sister Ismina, as Minalan formally acknowledges his illegitimate children as wards under Taren's protection.

Almina is mentioned alongside Ismina as "young" and compared affectionately to a small dragon Minalan met.

Almina is a growing young lady of Sevendor as the series closes — the quieter of Minalan's legitimate children.