PART THREE: THE FRATERNITY ASCENDANT - Chapter 18: The Girl in the White Shift, An Ill Meeting; Chapter 19: The Beggars Ready for War, The Inevitable Arrives Summary

In Chapter 18, a group of cultists, dressed in hooded crimson robes with mirrors where their faces should be, begin chanting in a harsh, guttural language. Sigils and Wards cover the walls. Hanging above the group, in a hammock, is Alaizabel Cray. She is very hot and heavily drugged. A large bowl below catches her sweat. Alaizabel and Thatch argue in her head. Thatch explains that they will move her spirit to another young girl who will die properly, unlike Alaizabel. Alaizabel sees another girl, the one destined to receive Thatch's spirit and then die, and...