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Lift has made a home of sorts and the labyrinthine tunnels that make up the ceilings of Urithiru. She continues to steal food, though primarily in the form of baskets deliberately left for her. She continues to grow, and she is angry about it. She talks with Wyndle, and it's clear that she saw Cultivation, not the Nightbringer, and she says that she had specifically asked not to change: "When everything else is going wrong, I want to be the same. I want to stay me. Not become someone else." She wanted to stay her mother's little girl and is heartbroken by the thought that her mother would not recognize her because she has grown. Wyndle wraps around her to comfort her, but then suddenly realizes that something has happened to the tower. Lift realizes her powers are gone, and they watch a red and green "chicken" fight. The red one is defeated, and Lift goes to it and tries to heal it but can't, feeling resistance. She takes it with her and goes inside to a safe place and tries again. Taking extra effort, she finally pushes through the resistance and manages to heal it. Her "awesomeness", however, is not working at all. The chicken leads her away, and they hear battling in the tower. Eventually, they come to a corpse of an old Alethi man in robes who has been killed by a knife and appears to be robbed, missing rings. Mraize, with the green chicken on his soldier, arrives, and says that he is always wanted an excuse to hunt her. Lift takes the red chicken and runs.
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