Today, we get to go see a temple service!  Yay!  Worldbuilding! …they sit in a chapel while a choir sings and a pastor gives a sermon.  Wow, that’s some really bland worldbuilding.  There’s a few details here and there, but they have no meaning.  The priestess wears a blue robe and has a star tattoo…

The chapter opens in Chaol’s POV, as he watches Cally and Dorian take a walk.  He muses about how his gut instinct is to keep the dangerous criminal away from the heir to the throne, but…well, gosh darn it, she’s just so cute.  No, really. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one…

The chapter opens with Kate (!!! 😀 😀 :D) in her dressing room, trying to hurriedly cover up the evidence of opium use because Duke P has shown up suddenly.  Since laudanum was considered a valid medical treatment until less than a century ago, this does not actually make me view Kate any worse.  Haha,…

Cally wakes up to find Elena’s ghost in her room.  She does, at least, try and pull a makeshift knife on her before realizing she’s a ghost, so I guess we can mark this down as a ‘competent’ day for Cally instead of a ‘teenager’ day. Elena is there to say that she has to…

In archery practice three weeks later, Cally thinks about the murders. There was no pattern; five were dead, and they had no connection to each other, aside from the competition. Yeah, there’s no connection except for that ONE HUGE THING THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON. Also, this is the first time there’s been mention of…