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The battle with the Wasp Kingdom has finished in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to exhibit for this but injured experts. Cheerwell Producer discovers himself impaired with techniques no physician may fix, haunted by ghosts of yesteryear that she can't please, looking for meaning in a town that no longer appears like house. The Empress Seda is restoring control over these imperial towns who refused to bend the knee to her, but she pulls her strength from anything more sinister than simple armies and battle models. Just her consort, the former spymaster Thalric, today the assassins are arriving, and understands the reality and he discovers his loyalties under threat and his existence all over again.