Difference between revisions of "Summary:Words of Radiance"
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Lin and Balat are arguing about who he will marry. Balat wants to marry [[Eylita Tavinar]], but his father thinks she's of too low a status. He wants Balat to marry [[Sudi Valam]], daughter of of [[Highprince]] [[Valam]], who is a widow in her fifties. Their argument escalates and Balat calls his father a murderer. In response, Lin coldly orders one of his new guards to kill Balat's new [[axehound]] pups. Balat is outraged and tells his father that [[Helaran]] is back, and that they had met only two days past. They lock eyes, then Balat stalks out of the room.
Shallan finds Balat in the kennel, where his new pod of axehound pups were dead in a pool of violet blood. She'd encouraged him to breed them and he'd been making progress with his demons over the years, rarely hurting anything larger than a cremling now. They discuss fleeing their house, and
While passing her father's door Shallan overhears him talking to [[Rin]], one of the house's new guards. Her father tells Rin to find Helaran, ambush him, and bring back his head. He offers Helaran's [[Shardblade]] as payment. Melise, having also apparently overheard this, is shocked that her husband would order the murder of his own son. A violent, angry argument breaks out, and Rin leaves.
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