User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: Can we play a card game?/@comment-25405817-20140922125358

I agree with you. The protagonists currently live in a happy dreamland, and soon enough they'll get a hard wake up call. I'm betting that whatever happens at the end of the volume, it'll force many characters to leave the safety of the kingdoms and venture outside of their light. Seems poetic, how the light represents hope, and by entering the wall they'd be "abandoning all hope" (Inferno anyone?)