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Szeth flies southward with the Skybreakers and Nin for three days, stopping several times to recover hidden stockpiles that had been left alone for centuries. They reach Marat on their fourth day, and Szeth contemplates on Marat's culture and the local ecology, and how he was taught that men don't fit in with the natural world, destroying instead of adding. Nin briefly speaks with Ki and the other masters, and the rest of the Skybreakers fly away, leaving just Szeth and Nin. They fly to another small town and walk among its destroyed ruins. They enter the remains of a courthouse. Nin discusses justice and whether the singers were justified in invading the town and pressing the survivors into service with Szeth. Nin indicates that he sides with the parshmen, while Szeth argues that the townsfolk were innocent and didn't deserve their fate. Nin tells Szeth that he is living in a world where Nin has failed. He references how he tried to ignore evidence that the Everstorm was coming until that evidence became overwhelming, and how Ishar warned him that Surgebinders of other orders might upset the balance and cause another Desolation. Nightbood tries to get Szeth to draw him, commenting that he thinks Nin might be evil, but Szeth refuses. Nin continues talking, claiming that he has changed, though part of him still wants to be merciful, but that mercy is chaotic and the purpose of the law is to bring order and prevent sentimentality from interfering with the judgement process. He tells Szeth that he will have to swear his Third Ideal soon. Szeth asks for permission to ask a question, and is allowed to. He then points out that Nin's tendency to selectively hunt Surgebinders while ignoring other lawbreakers is biased. Nin replies that it is true that he was being biased, and then tells Szeth that he is a Skybreaker of the Fifth Ideal, before starting to recount the things he and the other Heralds did at Aharietiam.
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