Three days remain until the contest of champions.

Sigzil and his generals plan a feint to draw the enemy attack toward Narak Three and away from Narak Prime. They will use an illusion of a storehouse of gemstones, lit with stormlight.

Venli and her companions continue traveling through the chasms.

Jasnah’s suspicions were correct. Odium faked an army by filling the fleet of ships with stones. Jasnah hopes this means that Thaylen City is safe, and that Odium has decided that a battle there wouldn’t be worth the resources.

Shallan sees a vision of her childhood in which her parents are having a fierce argument: something they did many times. In the vision, Shallan finds her brothers hiding, as she had in real life, and tells them a story. At the end of the vision, her child self sees her spren, Testament, for the first time.

Renarin experiences a vision from his childhood: an incident in which some older boys were bullying him, and his brother, Adolin, stepped in to defend him.

Rlain also sees a vision from his past. He revisits the conversation in which he volunteered to become a spy in the Kholin household at great risk to himself.