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She is given a room barely better than a cell which, over time, she transforms into the finest room in the whole palace with Forgery.{{tes ref|76}} She receives her Forgery tools except for her Essence Marks. [[Gaotona]] volunteers to being her test subject for the soulstamps she creates for Emperor Ashravan.{{tes ref|30}} The arbiters hire a [[Bloodsealer]] to make sure of her cooperation.{{tes ref|3}} As they work together, Gaotona and Shai grow fond of each other and eventually become friends. Shai starts to collect information on Ashravan's personality and memory to use for the soulstamp.{{tes ref|5}}
Shai thinksconcluded that the arbiters willwere planning to kill her, even if she fulfills their agreement,a little while before the soulstamp is done and have another Forger finish her work. SoShe shestarted keepslacing her notes inwith code.subtext Arbiterabout Fravathe comesarduousness andof takesthe her notestask to showdeter itthe to herother Forger a few times but she always comes back.{{tes ref|58}} All the arbiters except Gaotona proposesproposed that she create a backdoor to the emperor's soul that would allow him to be controlled by the arbiters. Shai playsplayed along but eventually doesn'trefrained dofrom doing it, not even for her selfherself.{{tes ref|17}}
As her hundreds days pass, Shai iswas constantly tempted to escape but shewas wantsdriven to completeby the emperor'schallenge soulof asthe welltask.{{tes ref|76}} InOn day ninety-seven, littlejust before she finishes the soulstamp, she enacts her plan to get past the Bloodsealer. NextThe next day, Captain [[Zu]] tries to kill her., Shea hasmove beenshe expectinghad the attackexpected from onesome of the guards, soand she managesmanaged to surviveevade itby with the help of theForging traps sheinto hasher createdroom. She escapes from her roomescaped and makesmade her way to where Ashravan's ischambers, staying.desperate Sheto appliessee theif soulstampshe tohad himmanaged andto finds out it works,Forge a featsoul thefrom likesnothing. ofWhen whichit hassucceeds, neverGaotona beengave doneher accordingback toher Shai.Essence Gaotona comesMarks and givesshe backused herthem Essenceto Marksescape backthe to herpalace.{{tes ref|98}} Using them, she escapes from the palace. It later turns out that she didn't ForgereForge Ashravan's soul exactly the way it was and made small changes, nudging him on the path to being a better ruler.{{tes ref|epilogue}}
Shai gets away and plans to go after the Imperial Fool who betrayed her.{{tes ref|epilogue}}
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