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;Plot summary :''Six years ago'' Jasnah leaves the feast celebrating the signing of the Alethi treaty with the Parshendi. On her way to a clandestine meeting that she had scheduled, she notices her shadow pointing the wrong way. Her shadow slowly returns to normal, but she is disconcerted. This isn't the first time her this has happened, and she wonders if she is cursed. As she continues, she observes a group of oily black figures materialize before her. Jasnah then transfers to [[Shadesmar]] for the first time. She almost drowns in the sea of beads before figuring out how to form the beads into the shape of one of the palace hallways. One of the figures approaches her drawing a sword and Jasnah manifests a statue of Talenel to protect herself. The figure bows to her while his companions whisper to each other, and Jasnah is transfered back to the Physical Realm. She notices that the lanterns near her have been drained of [[Stormlight]]. Jasnah, pleased to have extricated herself from the festivities above and about the signing of the treaty, hands the assassin Liss an envelope sealed with weevil-wax. She then proceeds to tell Liss only to watch. Whereupon Liss mocks that assassins are not really hired only to watch. After making it clear that Jasnah only wants her brother's wife, Aesudan, watched she thinks about Liss's other name, "the Weeper," and her secrets. Jasnah than proceeds to tell Liss that she will get one of her sister-in-laws attendees dismissed and that Liss needs to get the job. After a short conversation about Liss's former slave, whom she sold because he was too good an assassin and creepy to boot, Liss tells Jasnah why she likes her. Jasnah in turn tells Liss what she thinks about assassination and assassins. Jasnah reminds Liss of their first agreement, according to which Jasnah can buy any contract against her family out from Liss. She hurries on to the meeting, where she tells the assassin [[Liss]] that she only wants her brother's wife, [[Aesudan]], watched for now. Jasnah reminds Liss of their first agreement, according to which Jasnah will match payment of any offer made against a member of her family, in exchange for the name of whoever tried to have them assassinated. As Jasnah gets up to leave, she notices that her shadow is behaving oddly, something she noted before. Thinking of a reference in a book she wonders about being cursed. Jasnah starts to go back up to the feast, when the drums suddenly stop. Worrying about if Dalinar could have done something to offend the other party goers and thinking about how hard she worked to get this treaty. She hastens to the feast. In one of the hallways she overhears two men talking about a woman named Ash and sees an Azish man with a white birthmark or scar on his cheek and considers that she should have investigated further into them. Asking if the feast is over already and receiving a single word answer, she leaves the men behind feeling uncomfortable, under the Azish man's gaze. As she leaves Jasnah hears the Parshendi's drums cease. As she walks she encounters Nale and an unidentified man discussing an individual named Ash as well what Jasnah believes is a shardblade. Continuing on, Jasnah hears screams and starts running, following a trail of destruction that leads to her father's rooms. She watches as [[Szeth]] collapses the balcony beneath himself and [[Gavilar]]. She begins to cry as he stands over her father and wonders what he is doing. When he walks away she sees that her father is dead, his blade having appeared next to him, and despairs over failing in her efforts to protect her family. Members of the Parshendi ruling council, including [[Klade]], [Gangnah]], and [[Varnali]], approach Jasnah and apologize. They confess to hiring Szeth to assassinate Gavilar, claiming he was about to do something very dangerous. == Part One: Alight==

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