(This is the page for the book. You may be looking for the organization known as 'Talons of Power' or the Talons
of Power ceremony|ceremony instead.)  'Talons of Power' is the ninth
book in the New York Times bestselling series Wings of Fire (book
series)|Wings of Fire and the fourth book in the second arc. The main
protagonist is Turtle. The book was officially released on December
27th, 2016.

Talons of Power follows Escaping Peril and
precedes Darkness of Dragons.

## Summary

For every villain, there is a hero …

Turtle isn't one of the heroes he reads about in Literature|stories. If
he were, he'd use his animus powers to help Pyrrhia — instead of keeping
his abilities a secret, even from his own Anemone|sister. Now that
Darkstalker, the sinister and impossibly old Dragons|dragon from
Pyrrhia's most notorious legends, has returned, Turtle knows his own
role is simple: hide and stay hidden.

The other dragons at Jade Mountain Academy, on the other hand, think
Darkstalker is fascinating. He charms everyone he meets, including
Turtle's most skeptical friends. They all seem convinced that the
ancient dragon has changed.

Turtle isn't so sure. The more he watches Darkstalker from the shadows,
the more Turtle knows that someone needs to stop the powerful dragon. A
real hero. But Turtle is running out of time to find one, which means …
he might have to try to save the day himself.

## Quote on Back of Hardcover

In Darkstalker's eyes there seemed to be a flash of hatred, deep and
fierce. This legendary dragon loathed Turtle with all his heart.

He's going to kill me the first chance he gets, Turtle realized. I'm
going to die.

## Dedication

For Adam, my OTP and the only person I would trust with absolute magical
power.

## Plot

### Prologue

Gill swam to the Deep Palace#Royal Hatchery|Royal Hatchery and arrived
to find out one of the guards, Abalone, was extremely sick with a
strange growth on his neck. Gill wanted to take him to the healers, but
he could not leave the eggs unguarded, as Abalone was in no condition to
protect them from an assassin. So he went out quickly, found a group of
princes, and asked who could find Snapper and send her to the Royal
Hatchery to guard the eggs in Aquatic. Prince Turtle volunteered, and
Gill told him to go as fast as he could.

Gill returned to Abalone and waited for Snapper to come. But time went
by, and Snapper did not arrive, with Gill getting angrier at Turtle for
not coming and getting mad at himself for not giving better orders. Gill
eventually swam to the healers and brought them to Abalone, but by the
time he and the healers got back, Abalone was unconscious as the growth
on his neck had burst and the female eggs were destroyed. Gill roared in
fury and rushed out of the hatchery. He saw Coral, returning from a
meeting with Blister, and he went forward to tell her the news. She saw
the look on his face and covered her head with her wings, unable to see
him say the bad news in Aquatic.

Gill saw Turtle near his brothers but not playing with them; he rushed
over and grabbed his son by the wing. He roared, asking where he had
been. Turtle, terrified, said he was searching for Snapper but did not
know where to look or what she looked like, while fiddling with a piece
of coral in his talons. Gill told him that he should not volunteer for
jobs he could not do. He continued, saying it was all Turtle's fault and
his sisters were dead because of him. Turtle was shocked and upset, and
Gill felt a pang of guilt for blaming a small dragonet, but he went on
to tell Turtle how he was disappointed in him.

Then the SeaWing king swam over to where Queen Coral was and told her
that it was not Abalone and Snapper's fault. Coral said she sent them to
be executed anyway. Coral said the next daughter would live, but Gill
does not seem so sure. She tells Gill to watch over the SeaWings when
Coral promised she would stay by her side all year and that they would
name her Anemone.

### Part One: A Dragon Awakes

Picking up where Escaping Peril left off, Darkstalker bursts out of
Agate Mountain. Turtle, immediately frightened, Animus
enchantments|enchants a stick to make Darkstalker forget that Turtle
existed and to make him unable to read his mind and mentions of him in
other dragons' minds. Turtle then has a flashback of when he wrote
stories in which he was the hero who saved his family and the tribe. It
is implied that he did this because he wanted his mother, Queen Coral,
to notice him. However, when he had the chance to save his family for
real, he blew it. After that, Turtle swore never to write again, never
be a hero, or never be anyone special.

In the present, Darkstalker claimed he was not evil but hungry, and
Peril tried to scorch him, but he was undamaged (because of his
invulnerable scales) and pushed her aside. Darkstalker said that when
Peril burned the scroll, his animus magic returned to him, and he freed
himself. He also noted that he regularly grew while sleeping for 2,000
years, which was why he was huge. After Winter challenged Darkstalker,
Turtle noticed "something strange in Winter's blue eyes," and suddenly,
he started agreeing with everything Darkstalker said. Moonwatcher
accused Darkstalker of using his powers to hush up the IceWing, but
Darkstalker denied it, although the evidence seemed to be against him.
Throughout the whole chapter, Darkstalker said that he was starving and
asked if Moon and her friends wanted to hunt with him. The chapter ends
when the others tell Turtle to go to Jade Mountain to get help. Turtle
goes, claiming that he was not a hero, but he could find heroes at Jade
Mountain, while the other dragonets went hunting with Darkstalker.

Turtle went to Jade Mountain to warn the dragons about Darkstalker. He
went to an underground pool, where Pike, Anemone, and Tamarin were.
Turtle warned Anemone about Darkstalker, but she was eager to meet the
other animus, not seeing why she should have been afraid, and went to
find him with Pike. Turtle stayed with Tamarin, and after a while,
Tamarin convinced Turtle to let her take care of herself and that he
should warn the school. He found Sunny and Tsunami arguing about the
cactus bombs, how Fierceteeth and Strongwings escaped, and how Glory was
in danger. He told them about Darkstalker and Moon's powers. They
stopped by the library so Starflight could tell them about it, and then
Darkstalker popped his head through a window, asking for scrolls about
Fathom and Clearsight. Then, Mightyclaws, Mindreader, and Fearless
attacked Darkstalker, but they failed in hurting him due to his
invulnerable scales. Clay and Sunny arrived, and Darkstalker told Sunny
that he was her ancestor, as she was descended from Whiteout. Then
Anemone came, revealing two copper armbands she enchanted to control the
weather. Darkstalker told her that he had wanted to meet her, and they
go and talk.

Turtle then found his winglet, who were charmed by Darkstalker. As Peril
went to find Clay, Qibli suggested that Turtle continue to hide and spy
on Darkstalker. He found Darkstalker and Anemone talking in the main
entrance cave about enchanting something to protect their souls.
Darkstalker enchanted a breastplate used as a bracelet for himself and a
silver necklace for Anemone, much to Turtle's horror because he could
have placed another enchantment on the necklace. For the rest of the
day, Darkstalker talked to students, and Anemone sat with him. Flame
approached, and Darkstalker healed his scarred face for him, then Flame
left abruptly.

Moon then came over, leading the other three NightWing students and
introducing them to Darkstalker. He told the NightWings what it was like
in his time. Then he enchanted Mindreader's bracelet so she could read
minds, Mightyclaws's earring so whatever he drew would come to life, and
Fearless's bracelet so she could have super-strength. Darkstalker told
everyone that Moon could read minds as well. Then Moon and Darkstalker
had a vision of someone trying to kill Stonemover, and they hurried to
his cave with Turtle following. They found Stonemover bleeding in his
cave, barely alive. Anemone enchanted a bone to lead her to his
attacker, and Darkstalker enchanted a stalactite to heal Stonemover's
wounds. Stonemover came back to life but found that his scales had
turned back to normal, and he became scared, repeatedly saying, "These
aren't my claws." He goes on to yell that he would not use them to hurt
anyone again. He screeched, and Moonwatcher yelled that he was trying to
hurt himself with his magic. Darkstalker turned him back to his previous
stone-petrified scales to make Stonemover stop worrying so much.

Anemone arrived with the killer, who turned out to be Flame. Flame said
that he had tried to murder Stonemover for refusing to heal his scar.
Darkstalker took Flame's pouch and emptied it, revealing his library
card and the third dreamvisitor. Darkstalker said that Flame was the
darkness of dragons and the stalker of dreams. Darkstalker enchanted
Flame's library card to trap Flame, chaining one of his talons to the
floor.

Darkstalker then asked Moon if she wanted to fly with him, and Moon
declined. Anemone said that she would fly with Darkstalker and that she
was much more interesting than Moon. However, Darkstalker decided to fly
alone. Turtle went to Qibli and Winter's cave and asked to sleep there,
as it was lonely in his cave without Umber. Qibli immediately accepted,
and they started talking about Darkstalker. Turtle told them everything
he saw that day, and Winter was still very supportive of Darkstalker and
left offended by Qibli and Turtle's mistrust of Winter's instincts.

Qibli and Turtle started talking about what to do, and Qibli suggested
that Turtle make him an animus. Turtle felt a wave of guilt and
declined. Qibli finally asked for Turtle to enchant his earring to make
the wearer immune to any spell Darkstalker had cast or will cast. Soon
after Turtle cast the enchantment, Darkstalker came down the small
tunnel and asked if they had seen Anemone anytime recently. Turtle and
Qibli realized that Darkstalker had given himself the ability to sense
animus magic being used, which prompted Qibli to tell a lie against
Darkstalker that she might have gone a moment ago. With suspicion,
Darkstalker tested Qibli for animus but failed. He was convinced that
Anemone could have done the magic.

After Darkstalker left, they decided to have Turtle follow Darkstalker
to the Rainforest Kingdom|rainforest while they used a pair of slates,
enchanted by Turtle, so Turtle could send messages to Qibli. However,
Qibli's slate could not send messages back to Turtle. When he exited the
cave, he saw Peril accidentally put some scrolls on fire. She
apologized, and Turtle asked her how her talk with Clay went. She said
that it went OK and then said that there was hugging. Turtle left and
prepared to follow the NightWings to the rainforest.

### Part Two: Rise To Power

Turtle followed Darkstalker, Anemone, Mightyclaws, Fearless, and
Mindreader to the rainforest. On their way there, Anemone questioned
Turtle on why he had chosen to come along, and Turtle asked her the same
thing back. Darkstalker and the others swooped down into the rainforest
and landed on a stage set up in the NightWing village, where Queen Glory
and the entire NightWing tribe were waiting for him. Sunny had informed
the tribe of Darkstalker's arrival via dreamvisitor, despite him telling
her not to do so. Darkstalker delivered a speech in which he told the
NightWings about the Lost city of night|Night Kingdom and how they were
superior to all tribes; he told Queen Glory that they should have a vote
to see whether he should rule the tribe or she should. Glory refused,
saying she would not force any of the NightWings to go with Darkstalker.

Glory decided to allow anyone who wanted to stay in the rainforest
could, while whoever wished to join Darkstalker could go in their own
free will. To appeal more to the NightWings, Darkstalker decided to give
away free powers to whoever followed him to the old NightWing kingdom,
where he would become the king. He then gave several NightWings the
ability to catch any prey, advanced hunting skills, and more. Suspecting
that dragons were welcoming Darkstalker too easily because Darkstalker
had cast a spell, Turtle tested his theory on Qibli, who had said that
his instincts were trusting Darkstalker while his mind was telling him
Darkstalker was not to be trusted. After Turtle had enchanted Qibli's
earring, Qibli had then said that calmness in his mind earlier was now
gone. This then leads Turtle to realize that Darkstalker was using a
spell to trick most dragons. However, he realized that some dragons did
not seem to be affected, like Moon.

Turtle then realized that he needed someone else who was in the
rainforest who could help him. He searched for Queen Glory, with the
help of a coral he enchanted (in the past) to help him find whatever he
was looking for. He saw Glory but was momentarily stopped by
Deathbringer. After speaking with Glory, she told him that Kinkajou was
still in a coma and that she had been brought to the rainforest in hopes
that the sun would help her recover. Glory and Deathbringer both stated
Darkstalker seemed nice and charming.

Turtle visited Kinkajou and found her still in a coma, with nobody
knowing what was wrong. Turtle did not want to heal her with his own
power, so he found Anemone for help, which she felt irritated by but
then turned sympathetic and teased Turtle about his crush on Kinkajou.
They went back to the healers, where Anemone healed Kinkajou by
enchanting the RainWing's skyfire, and Turtle enchanted the stone to
make Kinkajou seem as uninteresting as possible to Darkstalker. Anemone,
being mischievous, added a love spell to make Kinkajou love Turtle as
much as Turtle loved her. Turtle strongly objected, but Anemone does not
budge. Once again, Darkstalker senses that Anemone used her power and
asked her about the enchantment. Anemone says that she healed Kinkajou,
and Darkstalker relented, recognizing her as Moon's friend, and claimed
that he wanted to heal her as well.

After giving some animus advice to Anemone, Glory and Deathbringer
landed nearby, and Glory asked Darkstalker how he found the RainWing
village. Darkstalker said that he followed the sounds of the RainWings
thinking and that he came because he wanted to warn Glory about five
dragons that were on their way to the Rainforest Kingdom to murder
Glory. He predicted that they would most likely attack at night and,
unless he stopped them, they would succeed in killing Glory.
Deathbringer disagreed and said that he could handle the assassins
himself, but Darkstalker noted that even if Deathbringer fights all five
of them, he would get stabbed by a SandWing tail and die. Glory
questioned Darkstalker why SandWings would attack her, and Darkstalker
replied that they were working with a pair of NightWings.

Darkstalker then enchanted a tree branch to build an indestructible
prison that could hold ten prisoners. He threw the branch to the ground,
where the prison was formed on the forest floor, much to the RainWings'
horror. Darkstalker then gave the keys to Glory, who accepted them
distastefully.

Glory, Deathbringer, and Anemone then went with Darkstalker to visit the
prison. Turtle and Kinkajou stayed in the pavilion and talked about
Darkstalker and his magic. Turtle told her that he suspected Darkstalker
using a spell to make everyone who met him think he was nice and
trustworthy. Turtle then explained Darkstalker's history to Kinkajou,
and Kinkajou got upset and said that she missed everything.

Turtle pointed out that since he and Kinkajou were the only ones safe
from Darkstalker, Kinkajou had to stop him. Kinkajou disagreed and said
that she would instead do it with Turtle. Turtle protested, but Kinkajou
reasoned with him, and she went out to study Darkstalker to find out
what he had enchanted to hypnotize everyone else to destroy it. Kinkajou
told Turtle why Darkstalker could not hurt her, and Turtle told her
about the spell he put on her. This shocked Kinkajou and Turtle said to
her that he was also an animus. Turtle told her not to tell anybody and
also explained the hiding spell he had cast to erase him from
Darkstalker's existence.

After some more talking, the two dragons went out into the rainforest to
see what Darkstalker was up to. They saw a large ring of fire on the
forest floor and the figures of Queen Glory, Darkstalker, and the
others. They settled near where the prison was at and outside the circle
of flames but close enough for them to hear Darkstalker and the others.
Turtle thought about the love spell on Kinkajou and then thought about
Umber and wanting to use his magic to see if the MudWing was all right.
Kinkajou started to make fun of Darkstalker and then said that she
wished that she was somebody that dragons would notice and remember.
Turtle told her that she was somebody to him, and then Darkstalker
suddenly noted that the five escaped prisoners were here, and he stepped
over the fire and walked into the night.

A while later, Darkstalker came back dragging four dragons behind him,
all linked by chains around their ankles and necks. Deathbringer said
Darkstalker said there were five, and questioned why there were only
four. Darkstalker claimed he had to kill one of them. One of the
prisoners, a female NightWing, yelled at Darkstalker to let them go.
Darkstalker presented the prisoners to Glory and blew out most of the
fire from the burning ring, only leaving a small section of it. He asked
Glory if she would like him to dispose of them, and the female NightWing
snapped at the two SandWing prisoners, with the last prisoner being a
male NightWing. Glory recognized the two NightWings as Fierceteeth and
Strongwings and told Darkstalker that she wanted to talk to them first.

Glory asked Fierceteeth what her plan was with coming to the Rainforest
Kingdom and Fierceteeth responded that she wanted to take the NightWing
throne to become queen. Darkstalker told her that it was all taken care
of and made Strongwings bow, saying that he would be the NightWings'
ruler. Fierceteeth snapped at Darkstalker, saying that he cannot rule
the tribe because he was a male and then asked him who he was.

Darkstalker told her his name, and Strongwings got frightened, repeating
that they were all going to die. Fierceteeth did not believe Darkstalker
and said that she was not scared of him at all. Anemone jumped in,
saying that it was Darkstalker and Fierceteeth told Darkstalker that if
it really was him, she wanted to challenge him for the throne, believing
that she would be better at it than anyone else. Darkstalker told Glory
to grant Fierceteeth her mercy and to give her to him to take her to the
Night Kingdom so she would never have to bother Glory ever again.
Fierceteeth asked Darkstalker about the Night Kingdom, and he replied,
talking about the old Night Kingdom and how she would love it.
Deathbringer questioned Fierceteeth's punishment, but Glory agreed with
Darkstalker and told Fierceteeth that if she left the rainforest, her
friends, and her tribe alone, Glory would give her a second chance.

Fierceteeth questioned Darkstalker about really being in charge of
something, and Darkstalker said yes and told her to think about it
overnight in prison. The SandWings asked what was going to happen to
them, and Glory told them that Thorn would decide, but in the meantime,
they would also stay inside the prison. She gave the keys to
Darkstalker, and he shut them all inside the prison.

Glory told Deathbringer that she was not quite sure about trusting her
decisions and felt something weird. Closing the prison door, Darkstalker
told Glory that since all that was taken care of, he was going back to
his tribe to get some sleep since he would be taking the NightWings to
the old Night Kingdom the next day. Deathbringer asked Darkstalker about
the fifth assassin since he had only brought four. Darkstalker answered
that the fifth prisoner was a SandWing, but he was forced to kill him
since they had fought back. Glory said that it was unfortunate and that
they should find out his name so Queen Thorn would have the information.
Darkstalker agreed, saying that he would take care of the body.

Kinkajou told Turtle that Darkstalker was lying, and Turtle agreed.
Glory flew away with Deathbringer, saying that she would see Darkstalker
in the morning. Darkstalker is left alone with Anemone. As he looked
down at the sleeping SeaWing princess, he whispered that it would not be
much longer for Anemone's turn to change the world.

Turtle and Kinkajou spent the night in the healing pavilion. Turtle
wrote to Qibli, telling him that Kinkajou was awake and he should tell
Tamarin.

### Part Three: The Lost City of Night

Chapter sixteen starts with Turtle following Darkstalker. Darkstalker
leads the NightWings, Moonwatcher, Anemone, and Turtle to the abandoned
Night Kingdom, located on the Talon Peninsula. That night, they stopped
and rested on the outskirts of the kingdom. Turtle later saw Darkstalker
leaving the camp and followed him. They entered the Night Kingdom, and
Turtle felt a slight shock from passing over the shield, created by
Darkstalker to kill any IceWings coming into the kingdom. Darkstalker
entered the Lost city of night#The NightWing School|school and used his
magic to restore his portrait of Clearsight. Turtle used a marble to get
Darkstalker's attention, causing Darkstalker to think that Clearsight
was there, watching him. He urged Clearsight to show herself and
apologized for putting a spell on her. Then he criticized himself for
being so sentimental, saying that he could not see Clearsight in any of
his futures.

When Turtle returned, he told them he was checking on Anemone, which he
technically had done. Moon told Turtle about the vision she had of him
pinning down Anemone on a beach. Moon assured him it probably would not
happen. They then woke up Kinkajou and flew into the Night Kingdom.
Darkstalker talked about his plans for the Kingdom, mostly to Moon. He
brought them to the NightWing palace|palace, where he showed Anemone the
room where Fathom had stayed in 2,000 years ago. He told Anemone to
clean it up with either magic or her own talons, then left. Anemone
angrily throws a fit, enchanting a broom to whack Moon until she used it
to clean. She also enchanted a pile of pebbles to turn into jewels to
distract Darkstalker, and an earring to turn into something that
Darkstalker would like, then make him like her more and forget about
Moon. Darkstalker stormed in and began to scold Anemone. He froze Moon,
and Kinkajou must pretend to be frozen as well, due to Turtle's animus
spell on her.

Darkstalker exiled Anemone, telling her to kill her mother or do
whatever she wanted now. As Anemone flew to the Kingdom of the Sea,
Turtle followed her, using his piece of enchanted coral. He had a
flashback to when they had the Talons of Power ceremony. In that
flashback, Whirlpool was calling Turtle to the ceremony. Turtle was
afraid that they might find out his power, and when his turn came to
tell a coconut to float from his talons and back, he enchanted it not to
move when he told it to, and for Anemone to become an animus too as a
distraction. Coral was delighted to see that her daughter was an animus.
He ran into a few of his brothers, whom he warned of Anemone, then he
found Coral with Auklet. Turtle unintentionally apologized to her about
what happened when he could not find Snapper and that he could not save
his sisters. Coral told him that Snapper was trying to leave the palace,
and that is why Turtle was not able to find her. Coral then asked for
Turtle's name, and when he told her, she promised to remember it.

On one of the SeaWing beaches, Turtle found Anemone. When she spotted
him, she got angry, blaming everything on Turtle. She started to attack
him, and Turtle used his magic to fight back. Anemone was confused about
how Turtle could do it, claiming that she was the SeaWing animus. Turtle
confessed to Anemone that she was an animus only because of him. Anemone
got angrier and attacked Turtle. He accidentally made his scales
invincible during the fight, and he was able to end it by tying a piece
of kelp to Anemone's arm and enchanting it so that whenever she wore it,
she could not cast spells. Turtle talked to her about her soul, and how
animus dragons chose whether to be good or evil and that it is not based
on the soul.

As soon as they got ready to head back, Turtle heard Darkstalker's
voice, enchanting the room he was in to bring all the animus dragons in
Pyrrhia there. Turtle, Anemone, and Stonemover are warped there, as well
as a SandWing who immediately vanishes, so nobody except Turtle notices
her, making him think he imagined her. Darkstalker asks Stonemover how
many dragons were in the room, resulting in Darkstalker realizing that
there was an animus hiding from him. He enchanted a sword to bring him
whoever the hidden animus cared about most, and Kinkajou was forced into
the room. Darkstalker also enchanted Anemone to obey his every command,
then told her to be quiet. Turtle confessed his love to Kinkajou, and
she does the same, but he tells her that she is under a spell to like
him. Turtle wrote in his slate, asking Qibli for help, then threw his
stick to Anemone. As soon as Darkstalker saw him, he immediately thought
he was Fathom. He breathed fire on Turtle, and Kinkajou, angered, spat
venom in his eye. Darkstalker then had to enchant his eye to heal,
likely because he enchanted his scales to be invulnerable, but not his
eyes. He enchanted Kinkajou to get out of the room and wipe her memory
clean of what just happened, although she was unaffected. She walks out
of the room, then Darkstalker said that it was too bad for Turtle that
he looked too much like Fathom, and took away his animus magic, throwing
him in a dungeon. Turtle knew he would not be the one to save the day,
but Anemone, Kinkajou, and Qibli would come.

### Epilogue

In the SandWing tribe, a Talons of Power (organization)|group of dragons
wearing bird medallions were attacking the SandWings. The SandWings were
furious and thought, 'Why isn't Queen Thorn protecting us?'. In the
SeaWing tribe, a white light shot from the ocean and surrounded some
dragonets. The dragonets said they were being attacked by the vengeful
ghost of Albatross. In the IceWing tribe, at least three dragons have
caught an unknown plague. The only known ones are Queen Glacier (who was
the first to get the plague), Narwhal, and Tundra. Hailstorm asked the
messenger if his parents were cured. The messenger reports that Tundra
and Narwhal are alive but getting worse and that Queen Glacier is dead.

## Mistakes

  - On the English cover, Turtle's phosphoric lights are blue,[1] but
    they were described to give off a greenish light.
  - On the English cover, Turtle's ears are pink,[2] but on the cover     of Moon Rising, they are green.[3]
  - On the English cover, Anemone is missing the royal SeaWing wing
    patterns.[4]
  - The term people was used instead of dragons.
  - The flower Darkstalker used to heal Flame's scar is later described
    as a feather.
  - Octopus and Cerulean were at the Talons of Power ceremony with
    Turtle, even though they should have been there two years prior —
    the year Turtle missed the ceremony due to being sick.

## Trivia

  - The paperback release does not feature Anemone on the back
    cover.[5]
  - On the Scholastic website, the book's description used to read that
    Turtle "might have to try to save the say himself." The typo was
    present for quite some time but has since then been corrected.[6]

## International Releases

  - 'Chinese:' 火翼飞龙. 海翼族的椰子测试 (July 2017)
  - 'French:' Les Royaumes de Feu. Les Serres du pouvoir (September
    2018)
  - 'Russian:' Драконья сага. Когти власти (April 2019)
  - 'German:' Wings of Fire. Klauen der Macht (March 2021)
  - 'Korean:' 불의 날개와 힘의 발톱 (January 2023)
  - 'Polish:' Skrzydła Ognia. Szpony Mocy (May 2024)