Michelle Sagara’s main hero or heroine is always a survivor and this separates them from the average people we find in other novels. Though the people present in the novel fight but they are never into suicidal missions which will make them legendary after death. They live in the present and consider their lives precious than their missions. Kaylin Neya as a young girl had to face a lot of hardships and in those days she was not reluctant to do anything for survival.
Whether the jobs or tasks she opted for were good or bad she never thought of those things. Then she made an aim in life i.e to become a member of the elite Hawk force. After fulfilling her dream she made a name for herself and left the past so that nothing comes in the way of her emerging career.
Keeping the people on the street safe is her duty now and she is not giving a lazy look to anything at this stage in her life. Khristine Hvam presents before us the intensity which is seen in the girl who has come quite far in life. But when someone from her past shows up all of a sudden she very quickly finds everything at stake.
Seriousness in the scenes of The Emperor’s Wolves and Cast in Conflict was exactly of the same kind. The author brings us back into the same kind of groove and the mission very soon gets to an epic climax. Kaylin thinks that she can lose everything for which she has worked so hard for and she is not willing to do that.