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===Chapter Eight: Nearer the Flame===
Shallan feels embarrassed and foolish for having disturbed Jasnah again. Jasnah lectures her for a few moments about how she had already made her decision, then tells her to leave. Shallan does so, but after only a few seconds, Jasnah sends for her again. They talk for a few moments, and Jasnah apologizes for her behavior. Shallan asks what she thought of her letter.
Jasnah replies that she had not yet seen it, and reads it on the spot. She is impressed that Shallan was able to teach herself so much and notes the skills her letter shows off. She agrees, because of the change in circumstances, to allow Shallan to petition her for a place as her ward again once she has filled the gaps in her education, namely history and philosophy.
Shallan is pleased with this, but also realizes that it's not enough. It will take her years to develop the level of mastery that Jasnah will require, and her house cannot survive more than a few months more at best. She leaves the palace, planning to head back to the Wind's Pleasure.
[[Yalb]] greets her at the door, where he is playing a card game with several guards. He extricates himself from the game to escort Shallan. When Shallan scolds him for gambling, he tells her it isn't gambling if you know that you're going to win, and reveals that most of the game was spent with the guards trying to figure out how he was cheating and him trying to keep them from doing so.
When Shallan reveals her plight, Yalb tells her that she needs to try one more time, because the third hand wins most often. This comment inspires Shallan to make a last-ditch attempt to convince Jasnah to take her on. She realizes at this point that the worst that can happen is that she will be refused and forced to return to her family, something she was about to do anyway.
Shallan finds a book merchant and purchases a set of history books and several volumes on philosophy. Yalb helps her by pretending to be an assistant to a rival merchant, forcing the merchant to drive his prices down. Shallan then takes her books back to the Palanaeum and rents a reading alcove.
She has scarcely begun to study when she is interrupted by none other than Jasnah. Jasnah asks, “I'm never going to be rid of you, am I?” Shallan apologizes profusely for disturbing her – she hadn't intended to see Jasnah again until Jasnah was preparing to leave Kharbranth.
Jasnah asks Shallan if she intended to attempt to study quickly, then attempt to impress her before she left. When Shallan hesitantly responds that she did intend this, Jasnah asks to see her satchel. She examines the contents, pausing to look at each of the sketches. She asks Shallan why she made them, and Shallan responds that she made them because she wanted to.
Jasnah tells her to take her things and move them to a room that Jasnah has been granted by Taravangian. When Shallan asks her why, Jasnah replies that Shallan pursues scholarship in her free time, which is encouraging, and that if she can't be rid of Shallan, she might as well make use of her.
Shallan reflects on how she'd completed the first step in her plan, but now the more difficult task of stealing Jasnah's Soulcaster without being found out begins.
===Chapter Nine: Damnation===
===Chapter Ten: Stories of Surgeons===
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