Raoden has a dream in which he remembers the time his broken leg was healed by Elantrians. Except in the dream it does not work. There's something funny going on with Raoden's sensation of pain: it keeps coming and going. Maybe some residual magic is helping or else the pain varies with his mood.
He gets attacked by some ruffians from a rival gang. There is a fight in which one of them is beheaded. Luckily it turns out beheading results in death. The injured ruffians are taken to a building where Raoden has been putting all the other Elantrians he can find who are injured beyond being able to function. They are given some comfort and it seems to help.
Raoden's guard, Saolin, has become injured and says he is not worried about the pain since it just reminds him that he earned his wounds honourably. Normally I would say that mind over pain only gets you so far, but it's possible residual Elantrian magic is at work here, too.
Raoden finally gets back to his study of the mystery of Elantris and the Shaod. With Galladon's help he figures out that there is some force called Dor that surrounds us, binds us... no wait. Anyway it's the source of the magic and is probably just weakened, hence the Aons have lost their power but the Elantrians are still being kept alive. The magic machine is booted in safe mode, or whatever.
We also have clues that the magic is tied to the specific location of Elantris. Probably they just have to find a secret cave containing the magic machine.
Raoden is now openly suspicious that Galladon is not just a simple farmer.
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