Bugg and Tehol have a conversation in the presence of their new guards. Bugg is drunk and fell into the river. He says that he thinks he is being followed by rats, and that he heard something whisper his name. With their guard, they go to a slum in Letheras where Tehol convinces Bugg to act as a leader for the mixed-race people there. He instructs Bugg to tell all the people that they will be leaving the city the next day.
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Kuru Qan and Brys discuss how there is no Hold of Death, but that there should be. In the conversation, Brys mentions that Kettle, the keeper of the dead Azath tower, is undead. Kuru Qan is aghast and insists that they go to the Azath tower immediately.
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At Shurq's request, Kettle tells many ghosts to follow Shurq with the promise that they will see gold and learn secrets about the kingdom. The ghosts easily agree and follow Shurq into the Merchant Tolls Repository, where they scare the crap out of everyone and have a good time. One of the ghosts used to work at the Tolls, so is able to read the ledgers and report to Shurq.
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Brys and Kuru Qan talk to Kettle at the dead Azath Tower. She says that he is looking at her when he looks at the tiles of the Holds at the Cedance. Kuru Qan explains to her that she used to be dead, but is now alive. Her heart beats very faintly, and blood begins to flow again. The heart was frozen, placed inside her, and is now thawing. She says that her friend will kill her if he has to, but probably won't since the heart probably won't wake up. Also, someone referring to himself as the Nameless One has inhabited her body. She presents Kuru Qan with a new tile for his readings, a tile of the new Hold of Death. The Azath tower has become a place of the Hold of Death. She knows about the Hold of Death because a handsome man spoke to her earlier in the day and explained it to her. He told her, "...the throne is already occupied, at least everywhere else. Here too, soon." (Midnight Tides, p. 477, UK edition, trade paperback.)
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Brys and Kuru Qan talk to Kettle at the dead Azath Tower. Sh...
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Kettle's friend takes her back in time to the aftermath of the battle where the Edur betrayed the Andii. That battle took place on the same continent as Lether, roughly where the Edur now live. The Wyval have been waiting for their master, even until the present day. He tells her that if the Edur arrive in Letheras, they will try to kill him. Looking out on the four hundred thousand corpses on the battlefiend, he points out that there are no ghosts.
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Rucket meets Shand, Rissarh, and Hejun at a restaurant. They hate each other immediately, and a brawl breaks out. Tehol and Bugg slip away to let the ladies get acquainted.
