- As Katsa and Po grow closer, their ability to communicate through thought (at least on Katsa's end) grows stronger. They begin to have whole conversation in which Katsa doesn't speak, and she finds that the better she gets at opening her mind to Po, the better she gets at closing it to him as well.
- They continue to bat around ideas about Leck and analyze one another's Graces. Po is getting better at perceiving not just human thoughts and presences, but the energies of animals and plants as well. And Po once again suggests that Katsa's Grace must be more than just fighting or killing, because such a Grace, as he tells her, "can't account for all the things you can do. The way you never tire. Or suffer from the cold, or from hunger" (21.57). Or the fact that she can build fires in the middle of rainstorms.
- Katsa begins to realize he has a point—there are a lot of things she can do that don't point to a killing Grace. She begins to believe that her Grace is actually survival.
- Po thinks that makes a lot more sense, and Katsa begins to look at herself—and her Grace—in a new light.