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Shallan confesses to Jasnah enough of the truth to make sense of what she did with the Soulcaster. She tells Jasnah about her father, about her brothers, about the debt the Davar estate is buried under, about the dummy Soulcaster she swapped for the real one. She does not tell Jasnah what the real one does, or where it came from, or why a girl from a minor Veden house knows how to use it. Jasnah listens without interrupting and waits a long beat at the end as if to give Shallan one more chance to fill in what she has left out. Shallan doesn't.

Jasnah does not press. She tells Shallan that she will keep her on as ward — that the work they are now engaged in is more important than a theft, even a theft of something irreplaceable, and that she would rather have a competent dissembler at her side than an honest fool. *With eyes open this time*, she adds. Shallan understands that to mean she will not be lied to a second time and will not be given a second pass.

They speak then about what comes next. Jasnah is leaving for the Shattered Plains — to her brother Dalinar's warcamp — to put her conclusions about the Voidbringers in front of someone who can act on them. Shallan will come with her, as the scholar she was always meant to be. Shallan thinks, with a part of herself she does not say aloud, that she will also need to find a buyer for what is still hidden in her safehand pouch. The veristitalian road, Jasnah tells her, is not a comfortable one — but it is the only one along which the truth is the destination, not the obstacle. Shallan agrees, and means it.