In The Shrouded Walls of Kharith, the second book in the Ro-lan series, young American Roland Summers returns to the deadly other-dimensional world that holds the island of Boranga in a dangerous quest to find his beloved Larra, and his best friend, Denny McVey. ***Mogara was dead; the once verdant ground upon which it stood had been blackened by fire, and a long time would pass before anything grew there again. The bamboo huts had been razed in a similar manner, most incinerated completely—though remnants of a few remained. Charred skeletons dotted the landscape, one stack of five or six clogging the narrow stream that paralleled the city—the tributary that Ter-ek and I had followed many months past. Only the crimson obelisk, the stone erected decades past in “honor” of the devil whom those of Boranga worshiped as their Master, remained standing, doubtless as a perverse monument to what I could only assume was his inconceivable handiwork.