Hrathen meets Sarene outside the gates. She tells him that she knows what he did. Her friends attack him but he fights them off and goes away, leaving them. He says that her father will convert to Shu-Dereth now, which rattles her.
But now presumably she is still free. Free to make a fuss and tell everyone what Hrathen did. Surely she still has reputation enough to do damage to Hrathen. He seems unconcerned about that for now, though.
Sarene goes back to her uncle Kiin's house and spends a few pages eating. Roial is there and he accepts that Hrathen was behind Sarene's adventure. There is discussion of the difficulty of taking action against Telrii since it would be treason. They agree to sleep on it.
Sarene calls her dad and amazingly, he is determined to go through with his conversion even though he knows Hrathen was behind his daughter's curse. It makes no sense to do this out of honour, since the promise was made under false pretences. But he says Fjorden will overwhelm Teod eventually anyway so he might as well surrender. Oh dear.
Even if our gang overthrow Telrii by force, Araluen has no defence against Fjorden. Their only hope is to solve the Elantrian magic problem, but apart from Raoden, no-one is working on that. And no-one expects it to be possible anyway. Something is going to have to change about that.
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