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*[[Kar (Taldain)|Karmat]] (mentioned only)
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;Plot Summary
:'''Kenton'''
:''Helm's Rest''
As the party winds down, food is served. Kenton and Khrissalla prepare plates and take them to sit by the fountain. Khrissalla asks Kenton to tell and show her how sand mastery works, but Kenton says he cannot reveal the secrets of his trade and that Khrissalla is a Darksider and cannot manipulate sand anyway. The Lord Admiral comes over to them asking to meet Khrissalla and eat with them. He tells them that the A'Kar plans to embargo trade between Kertza and Lossand once he wins the Choosing—unless Lossand gets rid of all Sand Masters. Rumors also indicate that if Lossand renounces its "unholy past" then he will lift the Ker'Reen tabboo on goods that have travelled over water—which is the reason that many of the Helm's Kelzin do not want to support the Diemas the tabboo immediately excludes all of their goods. When Kenton asks why Lord Delius professed support for the Diem, he enigmatically says that Kenton must not know how a Lord Admiral is chosen in the Helm's Charter. The Lord Admiral leaves and Khrissalla again pressures Kenton more about learning about sand mastery while they return to the party to say their farewells. While passing through, Khriss notices Nilto, the Lord Beggar, and Kenton wonders if he's just late. Ais mentions that she saw him duck out when they first arrived and he only returned minutes ago.
:''Kezare''
As they are leaving in a carriage, Kenton looks ahead after hearing a commotion. He departs the carraige, asking his companions to wait there. Baon takes the opportinuty to check his pistols in case it's a trap. A building is collapsing, and Kenton uses a sand-assisted sprint to help. When he arrives and asks what happened, but the workman notices Kenton's sash and prevaricates. He stutters apologies while claiming the situation is nothing 'my lord' should be concerned about. The Foreman, stumbles out of the dust cloud and Kenton asks if there are people trapped under the rubble. The Foreman ignores the question and asks Kenton not to punish the workers for interrupting him, because it is his fault that the accident happened. Kenton masters sand and the workers scramble (thinking he's about to attack them), but Kenton splits the sand into three ribbons, using one on top to keep the wreckage in one piece, while the other two lift up the nearest corners revealing the trapped workers, who are helped out of the wreckage. As soon as Kenton releases the sand, the wall finishes collapsing and breaks apart.
Kenton nearly collapses from overmastery dehydration and rests by a cart to guzzle his qido while ruminating on why he risked his life for people that fear and hate him. The Foreman, [[Trell (Taldain)|Trell]], comes over to thank him; and Kenton tells him to call for a Sand Master any time anything like that happens. Khrissalla compliments Kenton and tries to coerce him into telling her more about sand mastery so that "the rest of the world can benefit." Kenton hears Trell command the workers to start clearing the wreckage, so he turns back to tell Trell that his men deserve to have the rest of the day off. When the Foreman says he would, but Kelzi [[Kar (Taldain)|Karmat]] would not allow it, Kenton interrupts to say that if the 'good kelzi' has a problem with it, she can contact the Lord Mastrell.
:'''Khriss'''
:''Day 61—Lonzare''
Duchess Khrissalla talks with Baon about needing saltpeter to make more gunpowder as they are running out of charges for the pistols. She says that she wants to return to Darkside as soon as she unlocks the "secret of sand mastery," but laments the language barrier. She experiments with carapace and different liquids, finding that carapace soaked in alcohol no longer dissolves in water. She then notices that his pistols are specifically [[Elisian]] officer pistols. She asks outright if they belonged to Captain Deral and if Baon killed the captain and lieutenant. He admits straightforwardly that he killed them and was sent to Elis by the Dynasty. Professors Cynder and Acron walk in with saltpeter for Baon (which is dropped and breaks), to see Baon holding a gun while standing in front of Khrissalla. Baon holsters and walks out calmly, his cover exposed. Khrissalla becomes distraught and decides she needs to talk to Kenton.
:'''Kenton'''
At the Diem, Aarik is praising Kenton on what he did the day before back in town, noting that it's all the Diem has been able to talk about lately. Kenton makes an official statement to the Sand Masters gathered in around them in the main "courtyard" of the building, saying that the Sand Masters will now focus on serving the people, no longer hiding in their secretive world of rules and traditions. As he finishes, Khrissalla bursts into the Diem, and proclaims that she has decided that she is to ready to become a sand master.▼
:''The Diem''
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