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Calls had swiped a phone too along with the knife from the palace it only works within the cities -yilas brother mautiya (calla hired) is working in surveillance at the palace - he departed from crescent societies

Bibi- talks of the provinces

Laho province land locked nothingness but she spent most of her time there, it started getting expensive tho - Talin is rural n expensive too - gaiyu has red wind chime flower - Rincun n youlia unrest n fusses - she decided Eigi wouldn’t be a bad area to settle down - mentions “so they don’t kill her a 2nd time” huhhh

August/anton new taxes are overtly a power grab that it loos like he’s purposely trying to upset the palace. He wants San-Er expanded into Eigi - galip thinks this is weird bc August is a plan in a month not on a whim kind of person or without consulting him

It talks about cinnabar history, it’s the stuff galip tried to poison Anton’s girl in the hospital with

Galipei can tell something is wrong with August, he’s been an extension to him for so long he knows him very well, this plays in repeat in his head

Seiqi- galip cousin, new captain of a unit within guard palace since Lesia was arrested for treason

August/Anton has been sending out supplies to mass legions, turning palace guards into provinces to identify problems, firing those instead of addressing problems

She remembers the two lines that the crescents in the hollow temple wore, repeating it back to the 3 lines she saw … she tells the guards to let the yamen deal with this & that they were to leave

The children explain their mother told them to run if they ever feel the air get cold, cold = qi stolen

She notices 3 lines on the trough where the kids were hiding, they say it’s a sigil for protection - their mother shows up & says she wants to take her kids home, but doesn’t ask what happened

This makes her wonder if the provinces r better @ hiding secrets than she thought

She never went back for those bodies at the hollow temple & she felt guilty about it

As she’s searching around Ponins death site, she finds other soldiers, 30 at least all that dropped dead wo an indication how they died, no blood

She finds two children terrified, they tell her that they the soldiers let them play there and eat rice leftover - the barracks turned ice cold they said no attack

Calla wasn’t allowed to have a sword “the royal guards r your protection” so when she gets the barracks & sees the yamen workers around Ponins body - he has carvings in his chest similar to qi expermwnte; but Ledia miliu is in prison (she guided them in the 1st book)

She has a flashback of when she was stabbed & yikes was kidnapped she felt that she should’ve gotten others out not just yilas

Calla noted the coldness of the place (literally) - the villagers don’t want help from higher ups due to their negligence of wars etc - Venus cry’s out that General Ponin is dead outside of the west barricks, they were looking for him to report back to Venus cuz she’s in charge of his group as council - calla takes off the to barracks to find out what’s happening leaving Venus behind

Rincun is only province that’s been split between west & east side & ran by one council member - aka Venus & apparently she’s not good at it

Eigi & Pashe (other councils) never struggling to receive prompts from General to soldiers due to loyalty unlike Venus who doesn’t have that

Calla remembers the events that pushed her to invade callas body when she was 8 & remembers that Rincun used to be her home