In the shop, fartin stops by to pay his respects to the late master. He tells the shop owner that he thinks he's captured an assassin, but he doesn't know why. He's now in the company of the "cream of the knights" , which means he can "bend the rules" for him. The shop owner is bummed that he can't trade armor with him, because they've got some important business to attend to. He also tells fartin that malakia is in the way of his grandfather's plan to purify the kingdom with a weapon made of malakia. Fartin says that the bastard has vanished, and that time is moving faster than he remembers. He thinks that the palace thought he was responsible for killing resha, but because of a mix-up, the assassins couldn't do it. They'll have to wait three months for the rave to be completed.