This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by the same name. It's a poem about a turtle shell, which is a symbol of protection for inscriptionists. The turtle shell is made of gold, so it's safe to say that the inscriptionists are using it to protect themselves. The only problem is that the turtle shell isn't big enough to hold all of the gold that's in it. The inscriptionists can't even get into the tower without being detected by the detection runs. They've also lost their "moral compass" by marking other people with their slave runs. So now they're going to have to figure out a way to sneak in and kill someone in order to get in the tower. That's not going to work, though, because there's no way to get inside the tower with the protection runs on. So they've got