In this chapter, we learn that the city of Sanjul is one of the largest in the ring, and that it's home to many different kinds of people, including the gypsys and the freemen. The gypsys eat the people they kill, but they don't kill the people who aren't killed. The freemen call themselves quazzaq, meaning "free man" in their language. They're all "mad dogs" from the rubble of the city, and they kidnap the children and conscript them into the ranks of the empire. They call themselves free, yet they're slaves to the violence and fear they create. This is the first time we've heard of azazel, so we're not surprised that he's still alive. He tells us that he took out a bunch of soldiers to help him get rid of them. He's going to hang out in the city for a while, and then he'll head back to his house.