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J confessed his love to A and she said she would wait for him. G seeks after A saying, he will watch over her. He goes to Sult who promotes him to superior of a town in the south, which is as much a promotion as it is a stab in the back. He can no longer look after a after promising her, which is just another moment where someone will let A down
Sult REALLLY wanted F and is pissed that 20 men wasn’t enough

B asks for J to be removed from his mission to Angland and to join his quest to the end of the world. J is not pleased about this. Be wondering where F is sends Logan after her. He finds her surrounded by three inquisitor. They start a brawl that leads halfway across the city. They are out number 20 to 2. They fight on rooftops and in the bleachers of the contest, saving each each other along the way.

A lot happens but the men butcher bethods people. They head south to Angland to fight against bethod. Along the way they bury the weakest who go his monicker by being willing to surrender to Logen

The weakest goes into bethods city to tell him about the shanks and that they are coming. He knows he is the only in that won’t immediately be killed because he is a covered unlike the others. The other men set up a trap incase something goes wrong. It does. Beth ODs men killed the weakest and didn’t hear the warning.
Total brawl breaks out (a bit sleepy when I read this so it was probably cooler than I think)

G feels anger at his mom for this and not telling him but also a glimmer of happiness for the first time in a long time that maybe he has a friend. He accepts W’s plead to look over Ardee

This shit makes me so happy, poor guy has been through the absolute ringer

Late at night west goes to Glotka asking for him to watch over Ardee when he leaves for war. They had been old friends but after G came back he felt that W abandoned him. He felt like if anyone would welcome him back it would have been W but no.

W, surprised, tells G that he came to visit 3 times when G came back but was turned away by Gs mother each time. She didn’t want her son freinds with a commoner

"Walk in God's footsteps
"Huh. They have no God here."
"Say rather that they have many."
"Many?"
"Had you not noticed? Here, each man worships himself"

F heals quickly, feels little pain, and sees no color. She has some old blood that makes her the perfect person to carry the seed, still unsure what that means. Bayez recruits her offering her vengeance beyond what she could do alone. She doesn’t trust him but can’t pass up
The opportunity.

At this point his head is pounding and he goes home
To find ardee writing a note to J. He is beyond pissed about her hurting his reputation and beats her. We get a lore dump about there abbusive father and how W left A alone with him after joining the army. She was so happy to get his invite but he just ignored her the beat her. W has a bit of a mental break.

Farro and Y meet with Bayez. Y and B are old friends

West is running around like a chicken with his head cut off as the only man willing to make war preparations. Passing the main gate he sees two soldiers bloodied and a women brandishing a knife. It’s farro. He deals with Yulwei and her to get them into the gate as the have papers promoting such. He then threatens the chief smithy to get the kilns making weapons again