- Upon returning to Randa City, Katsa bursts into Raffin's workrooms, finds Po, and starts ranting.
- She accuses Po of being a mind reader, but he denies it. The truth is that while he can sense people when they're near him (the reason Katsa always felt like he had eyes in the back of his head), but he can only sense people's thoughts when they're thinking about him. Which (heh, heh) means he's sensed a lot of Katsa's more embarrassing thoughts—like when she was admiring his biceps. Or his chest.
- Katsa isn't consoled. She still feels betrayed even after Po explains and apologizes and explains and apologizes some more.
- Helda observes Katsa's dour mood and shares her suspicion that Katsa must be upset about one of her young men. Helda's answer? "We'll make you especially beautiful for the evening" (14.33). Cause a slinky red dress solves everything.
- Raffin comes to visit before dinner and tells Katsa the dress favors her. Yeah, yeah, whatever—dress, shmess. Katsa doesn't care. Raffin changes the subject.
- He tells her he spoke with Giddon and he knows what happened with Lord Ellis. What's Katsa going to do? Katsa basically shrugs, and Raffin changes the subject again… to Po.
- "His Grace has been a secret since he was a child" (14.59), he tells Katsa. If his dad, the Lienid King, had known Po could sense people and sometimes their thoughts, Po would have been put to work early and often—and not always for the best reasons. He would have been used a lot like the way Katsa's been used (except without all the torture and killing). Katsa kind of gets it, and Raffin says he'll send Po in to talk to her about it some more.
- Po comes to Katsa and explains and apologizes (again), getting into the nitty gritty details and complexities of his Grace, how it works, and how it's affected his life. This time she kind of sort of begins to forgive him.
- He then shares his suspicions that King Leck may not be the swell guy everyone thinks he is and that he may have been involved in Prince Tealiff's kidnapping. Po plans to go investigate, and he's hoping Katsa might come with him. Please. Pretty please.
- That's when Randa sends for Katsa. She's to go to him immediately.
- Uh-oh.
- Po asks what this is all about, and Katsa fills him in. She's worried that if Randa angers her at this meeting, she might kill him, but he reminds her again that she has the power here. She holds all the cards. The ball's in her court.
- Despite all of these great expressions (none of which are actually used by Po), Katsa isn't so sure—but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do, so she goes to meet the King.