Sarene is crying because she thinks her boyfriend is a baddie. She thinks Shaor's men were only attacking because they were so desperately hungry. She doesn't know they were like that anyway.
The king massively overreacts about the attack in which no-one was hurt and sends men to kill all the Elantrians. Sarene has to yell at him to stop it, and he does. And he starts crying.
Sarene goes to the walls of Elantris to have a look. She notices the corpses are still alive. She realises that they don't need food to survive and wonders why the still want to eat. I suppose she'll figure it out eventually. She watches Raoden grieving and cradling Shaolin, supposes a tyrant can still love his followers, and wonders if he can really be a good man. I'm not entirely sure why she assumes he is a tyrant at all.
She goes to visit her uncle and learns that the whole court heard her chastising the king. That could cause rather a lot of political instability, I would think. There is news that someone unexpected was taken by the Shaod. Probably Hrathen.
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