- Sadima spends part of the day alone because Somiss and Franklin have gone off somewhere (neither would tell her where).
- An old lady comes back with some songs for Somiss, so Sadima offers to learn them and pay the woman a few coins.
- Her name is Hannah, and her family's song for lengthening lives apparently helped family members live to be really old (like eighty or ninety, which is rare in this world).
- Sadima shares these songs with Rinka at work. Then Sadima asks Rinka about love, saying that since her mom died, she didn't have anyone to tell her about this kind of stuff (by which we think she means the birds and the bees a.k.a. gettin' it on).
- When Franklin and Somiss return, Sadima sings Somiss the songs, which he writes down. Later Sadima makes copies for Somiss—this time, however, she makes an extra copy to keep for herself.
- Sadima wakes up in the middle of the night, hears Somiss moving around, and then goes to check on the copies. He's replaced her three identical copies with three other copies that are identical to each other, but different from the first set. Weird. Why would he make those changes? What's he hiding?