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Arin notices she knows the death rites, and she lies & says she learned under tutors before the war. He asks her where she works, and she takes him to Rory when he asks to give an excuse to her employer. When Arin leaves, Rory accuses her of leading the Nizahl Hier into Mahair, calling her Esssiya, revealing he always knew she was the Jasad Heir.

A Jasad baker is found to be doing low-level magic. He’s lived in Mahair for over 40 years, before the Jasad kingdom was destroyed, but the soldiers try to apprehend him. He runs and is killed. Sylvia foolishly offers to help the Sounders carry the body through the woods & she sneakily does the Jasad death rites to the body when they bring the body to Arin, the Nizahl Heir, in the camp.

Sylvia worries that really bad consequences will follow up on the village Mahair and the soldiers will start looking for JASADI survivors and blame them. She has a memory of watching her family burn to death in the ballroom and it’s pretty graphic, but she is reminded that she is the heir, to the JASAD throne.

It is revealed she is the heir to the JASAD thrown who was supposedly burned to death with all of her people 11 years ago. She manages to kill the soldier. She drugs. The soldier body home, so it’s never caught and wakes up her friends to a lot of alarm

In the dead of night, she tries to cross the wall illegally with a basket full of food and supplies. She thinks she’s being steal enough, but a soldier catches her and recognizes her as JASADI. He tells her to surrender, and he’ll take her for a trial that she knows she won’t survive it.

She keeps her distance from the laws that she can, and doesn’t use her magic because of cuffs that were attached to her wrist to block it from an early age that she’s never been able to get off. Her two best friends, Merric and Sefa, break into her house to cook when she gets home. Even though they’re not related, they’re very close and are more like brother and sister.

Sylvia is a courier for the local chemist in town named Rori. He gives her a gift of some really fine gloves on the day that she stated is her birthday. She is a girl who is a ascendant of the JASADI, a magical race of people who have been outpawed.