This collection of short stories and novelettes includes the previously published stories âThe Potterâs Daughterâ (a prequel to the novel The Element of Fire), âHoly Places,â âRites of Passage,â âHouses of the Dead,â âReflectionsâ (the Giliead and Ilias stories, prequels to the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy), as well as âNight at the Operaâ (a Nicholas and Reynard story original to this collection, set before the Nebula-nominated novel The Death of the Necromancer).