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Logen emerged back in control, exhausted. They plan to follow a river downstream

Dozens of more Shaka are working the forgers and 9 fingers breaks onto the seen. He is in love with the violence and uses the makers sword to cut through arm flesh and weapons alike. F is providing support with arrows which annoys him but there are many shanka to kill. At one point there is a new variant, clad in armor, bigger then the rest but it falls easily enough

They fell through the darkness only a short distance. L9 is mad because F is frankly being a cunt but F is not used to friendship and mistrusts the feeling she is having. She leads them through a dark tunnel guiding L’s hand which is cold and sweaty yet feels nice. They come across 3 more shanka feeding which she dispatches with arrows. Continuing down the path it grows hotter until they come across forges in use

Sunrise on the abandoned city was the most beautiful site longfoot had ever seen. Everything else seemed a cheap imitation. The maker was truly a powerful man.

They stop in town near a load of abandoned and defaced statues of bayazs master. JL smells something fowl which confuses him as there should be no life here. He mentions it to L9 who immediately panics, recognizing the scent as a flathead

L9s group enters a city that had been abandoned after the seed destroys it. They are all on edge but Bayaz keeps saying no life can survive here. F makes a stand saying she did not agree to make herself a slave to whatever B thinks so he gives them the backstory about his failures, breaking the magi, and why they need to find the seed + her role as having demon blood. As they cross the makers bridge she sees eyes

Glotka is told by Sult to return home and the leave the council to fight to the last man. He knows he is returning to the noose in effort for his failure. He planned on leaving the redhead ardent behind but she begs him to bring her along. Going as far as to take off her mask. She is younger than he would have guessed, pretty, he takes her along because he has a Rand complex

West and Dow head back to check on the two women, lol, and they her a women screaming. West breaks through the treeline to see a man holding C down and undoing his trousers. As he starts to swing his sword he realizes it’s the prince. He was going to rape C. He starts to talk to west but west pushed him off a cliff in anger. C and Dow are shocked. W is conflicted

Dogman finds Bethods scouts not far ahead. They decide to attack and try to take some of the gear. The prince and cathil are left back for safety. West is with Dow flanking from behind. He is freezing and Dow slaps him telling him to use the anger as warmth. They get into a skirmish and west kills two man, biting the lips and nose off one when he is pinned to the ground. He earns the name Furious from Threetrees

Jazel has his stitches removed by F. She does a really clean job and mentions that she has to have sex with a man to learn. This prompts everyone to start showing off scars. Longfoot was bitten by a shark, F cut her own face to reduce her value when she was a sex slave, Logen tells them about nine fingers and how he doesn’t alway remember the killing. LF freaks a bit but F tells him to shut up and be grateful

If needed to pull back into the upper city, leaving the bay alone, but too booby trap and evacuate the lower city. The general wants to flee, but G knows that they will need the boats to defend against the Navy that Yulwie warned him about.