Summary

In “Ramsey and the Mountain of Light,” Ramsey leaves the train but finds the bag that Hester dropped. There is a gun inside of it, inscribed with the initials WR, likely the property of Weston Ravenscar. Hungry, he eats a novel, finding the racism in the book to be flavorful. The Families do not discriminate because they are so few in number. Ramsey believes that all humans deal with self-hate, leading them to look for flaws in others.

Ramsey suffered during knights training because it was so difficult. Kingsey taught Ramsey about fear by locking him in a room with a dragon, telling him later, “you will never have to fear what you have mastered” (126). Finally at 24 years old, Ramsey was no longer afraid of the dragon, so he killed it and did not need Kingsey to save him. Now he inflicts...