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*[[Kenton]] (Point of View)▼
*[[Ais]]▼
*[[Khrissalla]] (Point of View)▼
▲*[[Kenton]]
*[[Ais]] (Point of View)
*[[Aarik]]▼
▲*[[Khrissalla]]
*[[Baon]]
*[[Mellis]]
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*[[Delius]]
*[[Delius' son]]
*[[Hoid]] (appearance only)
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*[[Kenton's mother]] (mentioned only)
*[[Praxton]] (mentioned only)
*[[Elorin]] (appearance only)
*[[Sharezan]] (mentioned only)
*[[Melloni]] (mentioned only)
*[[Skathan]] (mentioned only)
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;Plot Summary
:'''Kenton'''
:''Lonzare''
Kenton runs off in the middle of lunch, intending to start looking for the missing money. He is followed by Ais, Khrissalla, and Baon. As they move through the Lonzare market, Khrissalla is bumped by a person in overly concealing robes and notices that something is wrong. Kenton realizes it's been long enough for another attack just as more robed figures step from the crowds. Kenton masters sand to lift Khriss and himself over the first volley of zinkallin bolts. Kenton hands Khriss over to Baon for protection as he and Ais engage the assassins. As Baon is drawing his pistols, Kenton notices an assassin come from the alley and tries to yell a warning. Too late, the assassin blindslides Baon and knocks him out. Before the assassin can finish Baon or retrive the pistols, Kenton forms a sand dummy approximating his form at the mouth of the alley, drawing all attacks to the diversion and highlighting the locations of teh other assassins. While they are distracted he uses another ribbon to throw vases at the heads of the attackers, hitting two but the third sees it coming and punches his terken fist through the mastered sand. Now back-to-back with Ais in full view, Kenton waits for the assassins to turn toward him, then sends a ribbon to each of Baon's pistols, lifting them and pulling the triggers from behind the attackers. While another assassin is startled at the noise of the gunshots, Ais shoots her zinkall. The recovering Baon, appears behind the assassin who blindsided him and "returns the favor" by spinning him from the shoulder and into his waiting knife.
Scanning the bodies, Kenton notes that some of the attackers were Lossandin. Ais relates that she had heard rumors that the A'Kar was going to allow non-Kerztian Ker'Reen followers to start being adopted into the DaiKeen families. Ais also explains that the likely reason the A'Kar wants him dead so badly is because he was made to look foolish by announcing he had destroyed the Sand Masters before Kenton and others were found to have survived. Khriss says that if she is to be in danger when with Kenton she deserves to know why.
:''Later—Lonzare''
In another part of the market, while Baon and Ais check the other bodies, Kenton explains to Khrissalla that his mother was a Darksider and his father was a Mastrell. He tells her how everyone thought that his older brothers failed the test for Sand Mastery because they were half-breeds. Kenton confesses how he struggled to get into the Diem despite his low potential and worked to make his solitary ribbon as versatile as possible
Kenton then tells her how the Diem was ambushed, and that he never reconciled with Praxton before everybody was killed in the Kerla. He also explains how the Taishin were using it as an excuse to disband the Sand Master profession, and about his two week deadline.
:'''Kenton—Khriss'''
:''The Diem''
Kenton, with Khriss and Baon, return to the Diem to look for the missing lak. Aarik mentions how he found some his first day, and shows them the secret of the hidden compartment in the desk in his room. They split up to check the rest of the former Mastrell's rooms, discovering each desk has a hidden stash of Lak. They explore the rest of the building, but only find 5,000 lak in total—a substantial amount but nowhere near what they need. Khriss and Baon take the ferry back to Kezare and return to Lonzare.
:'''Ais'''
:''Fifth Hour—Home''
▲In the fifth hour of what is presumably the next morning, we see Ais on the roof of her house performing a cleansing ceremony to the sun lord to rid herself of the "evil sand magic" she has had to endure in being around Kenton. Her husband, Mellis, comes up and they talk- Ais tells him to take their child, Melloni, and go south to another land (of which he should not tell her so that she cannot reveal their location), and go to their hall of judgement and receive sanctuary. Meanwhile, at the Diem, Aarik convinces himself to leave and not be a bother to Kenton anymore. He flashes back to when Kenton gave him his valuable sword, which he still owns. He then convinces himself to stay.
:''The Diem''
Aarik argues with his reflection, talking out both sides of his internal struggle to stay and help Kenton, or leave before he can be trapped by a responsibility he does not want that may force him to kill or order others to their deaths. Aarik finds a worn scabbard in his pack and flashes back to when Kenton gave him a valuable sword when they were young. He had thrown the sword away when he ran from home and gave up fighting, but kept the scabbard out of sentimentality. He then convinces himself to stay because Kenton may need him.
:'''Khriss'''
:''Lonzare''
Khrissalla has turned her bedroom suite into a laboratory and is performing experiments. Cynder and Baon arrive and she shows them her findings: that the microscope shows that sand and sandling carapace have the same structure. She continues to ask Cynder to idenify the contents of three tubes; which he thinks are dayside white sand, wet dayside black sand and normal darkside sand. Khriss corrects him that the third tube is dayside sand that has been consumed and excreted by a sandling. They conclude that the sand itself is the same on both sides of Taldain, but dayside sand is covered with a thin film of lichen that appears white normally, and black when exposed to moisture. Finally, she shows them how in a dark room they can see that white sand gives off a full-sprectrum opalescent burst of light when dabbed with water—the same color of glow displayed by mastered sand ribbons. She and Cynder conclude that while they don't yet know much, it is encouraging that they might find a way to use the sand to fight Skathan. As Cynder departs, she asks Baon if he had ever witnessed any of Skathan's "magic." He confesses he has seen inexplicable events, but the most telling evidence is that Skathan looks the same now as the first time Baon saw him as a child. Khriss privately notices that Baon was still hiding something.
:'''Ais'''
In the ninth hour, Khrissalla and Kenton go to the ball. Ais goes in saying that she is there in place of the Lady Judge. The Lord Admiral announces his formal support of Kenton in the upcoming vote. Kenton wonders what made him change his mind from simply voting against the Lord Merchant, and Khrissalla and Kenton go to "mingle" with the other guests.▼
:''Thirteenth Hour—Helm's Rest''
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