- Sadima feels especially bad for one of the beggar children, a boy with a scar on his throat, so she works out a routine to give him some money discreetly so the bigger kids don't notice and steal it from him.
- On her way home from work, she starts to look at the letters on the shop signs, basically teaching herself to read. She meets up with Franklin, but doesn't tell him this.
- Franklin warns her to keep an eye out for the king's guards, since Somiss fears that they'll be sent after him any day now.
- As they reach their place, a boy who's about nine or ten runs down the stairs, his mouth bleeding. Somiss emerges a couple seconds later, chasing him.