The Confluence of Jewels: Jewels and Gods Book Three

I’m 120 pages into The Confluence of Jewels, Book 3 of the Jewels and Gods trilogy. To fulfill the prophecy, we need one Jewel Keeper from each country, for a total of seven. A big part of the trilogy has been trying to find the Jewel Keepers, because no one knows who they are, including the Jewel Keepers themselves. The prophecy announces who is the next Jewel Keeper when the questors meet him or her. The Jewel Keeper can be any mage, but each has a Jewel they’ve inherited, which becomes their power stone. The seven Jewels will form a prism of color, though the Jewel Keepers don’t know that yet.
Anyway, we just met the penultimate Jewel Keeper (side note: penultimate is one of my favorite words). She’s a teenager and has only been a mage for a few months. She comes from a country where magic was outlawed until a generation ago, so mages aren’t very common there. And there’s still a tinge of anathema to magic (another favorite word, along with interdiction, which is what the god of this country had put in place against magic, but I digress). The other Jewel Keepers have been frantically searching for this Jewel Keeper, the second to last they have to find. They are thrilled to have found her. Till her father says no, not my daughter.
And that’s where we are in the book.