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Shallan sits on the deck of the [[Wind's Pleasure]], bundled up because of the cold. She's observing and taking notes on the complex geometric spren, who she'd named [[Pattern]]. Pattern asks about the concept of food, and replies "Terrible! Destruction!" when Shallan describes eating. Shallan notes that Pattern is connecting increasingly complex thoughts. When she asks him about his first memories, Pattern starts to vibrate and Shallan can hear wind blowing through branches, and the deck starts to turn to a dirt path in front of her. Shallan is horrified and the images vanish. Just then, [[Yalb]] comes over and introduces her to "[[New kid]]", a six-foot-tall hulk of a man. Yalb tricks New Kid into doing galley duty for him, which Pattern seems to like. Shallan asks him if he likes lies, to which pattern replies that he likes "good lies ... True lies."
Shallan heads below deck to her cabin where she gets caught up in her research. Hours go by before she closes her books, and her spheres are getting dim. She feels satisfied, her life seems to finally be coming together. She fishes some newly-restored spheres out of her safepouch to replace those in the goblet, but strangely they are completely dun. When she goes to ask Jasnah for some new spheres, Shallan notices that Jasnah is uncharacteristically disconcerted. She seems exhausted, and her poise has been replaced by worry. They discuss the return of [[Surgebinding]], and Jasnah asks that Shallan focus on learning the [[Surgebinding#Illumination|Illumination]] Surge rather than [[Surgebinding#Transformation|Soulcasting]], as the later can be dangerous. Jasnah also reveals that she is worried about the [[parshmen]], who she thinks are secretly the [[Voidbringers]]. They worry that because the parshmen are so integrated into Vorin society they could cause utter collapse if they rebelled. Jasnah speaks of how in ages past, the [[Herald|Heralds]] would return before [[Desolation|Desolations]] and train the [[Knights Radiant]]. She reveals that she hopes to find a path to [[Urithiru]], the legendary city of the Knights Radiant, in the [[Shattered Plains]]. There she will try to find information that will convince the Alethi leaders to expel the parshmen.
Before Shallan leaves, Jasnah gives her a book that contains information on the [[Order of Lightweavers]]. The book is called ''[[Words of Radiance (in-world)|Words of Radiance]]''. She goes to sleep planing to read the book in the morning.
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