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{{epigraph|The ones of ash and fire, who killed like a swarm, relentless before the Heralds}}
Shallan is talking to her brothers and [[Nan Balat]]'s betrothed [[Eylita Tavinar]] over spannreed, in her quarters, discussing how to get to [[Jasnah]]'s [[Soulcaster]]. She considers how difficult it will be for her not to fall in love with the freedom and the studying, when Nan Balat informs her, after having sent his brothers out, that [[Luesh]] has died. He also tells her that some “friends” of their fathers came by some weeks later “suggesting” Balat should return the Soulcaster. In Balats Opinion they are the owners of the Soulcaster and are very dangerous. Balat has Eylita draw a picture of three diamonds of which they found a pendent worn by Luesh, he also mentions that one of the “friends” had the same pattern on his thumb tattooed. After the end of the conversation Shallan burns it in the sitting room's fireplace before heading back to her studies.
Five hours later as she is studying the Alethi monarchy she has an outburst about the way how some of the books are written. In a discussion about it she tells Jasnah that she thinks the authors are “errorgant”. Jasnah informs her that this is the “Assuredness Movement” in which the authors overstated their cases. Shallan wonders why she is researching events as recent as the murder of King [[Gavilar]], to which Jasnah replies that she thought to ease Shallan into true scholarship this way. The discussion moves on to Shallan's habit of saying the first passable clever thing that comes into her mind and the incompetence of her former tutors and their punishments. Jasnah believes [[Wit]] would find her amusing. They move on and talk about what Shallan has learned about Gavilar's murder, and later about youth and scholarship. Shallan wonders what it is that Jasnah is working on.
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