Part 4 The Null Spire, 4.4 - 4.6 Summary

In the middle part of Part 4,The Null Spire, we find the main characters all making their way to the Null Spire, the home of the Patrician and the Secret Police.

In 4.4, the golem Vago is on a boat with Lysander Bane and thinking about his fate. He knows instinctively that the chief of the Secret Police is right; he is Tukor Kep, and feels that he can almost remember his past. Distractedly he listens to the argument between the assassin-thief Finch and his master Lysander as Lysander tells him that he is not free to go, that the Persuader device will remain on his arm, threatening to kill him. Instead, the Secret Policeman wants him to go and find the two ghetto youths that the golem was accompanying, and bring them to him at...