In Lasting Integrity’s open-air forum, Shallan takes rare time to sit in a bright blue havah and draw. While sketching the city’s disorienting architecture, she notices that every drawing has acquired the same hidden feminine singer face without her conscious intent, reminding her of how an Unmade once appeared in her art at Urithiru. Below her, Adolin, Godeke, and Shallan’s agents wait for the honorspren response to Adolin’s call for new bonds.

Only twelve honorspren arrive from a population of hundreds, so the recruitment is a partial success but far less than expected. Notum comes to speak with Shallan and explains that many honorspren may support Adolin yet still refuse the intimacy and burden of bonding a human. When Notum admits that he does not want a bond himself, Shallan tells him he should not force such a personal connection for the sake of duty. Encouraged by that, Notum decides to remain in Lasting Integrity instead, hoping to support reform there and perhaps revive honorspren activity in Shadesmar. He also tells Shallan that Adolin’s defense of him proved that Honor still lives.

Afterward, Shallan keeps drawing and again finds one of the strange faces in her work. Kelek then sits beside her and admits that he will not travel with the group, partly because he refuses to leave the seon and partly because he is paralyzed by fear of every possible choice. When Shallan says she must seek Ba-Ado-Mishram before her enemies do, Kelek warns that freeing or containing the Unmade both carry terrible consequences. As Shallan sketches him, she produces an image of Kelek as a decisive, heroic figure, which startles him.

Kelek interprets the drawing as more than artistic instinct. He suggests that Shallan’s unusual state as a Lightweaver bonded to both Pattern and Testament lets her touch Fortune and glimpse possibilities in the Spiritual Realm, then express them through art. Looking at the recurring singer face, Kelek identifies it as one interpretation of Ba-Ado-Mishram, likely surfacing because Shallan has been thinking about entering the Spiritual Realm to find the Unmade’s prison. Before Shallan can explore that further, Windrunners led by Drehy arrive to take the group back toward Urithiru. Their numbers are too few to carry everyone, and Adolin immediately turns the practical problem into a joke by asking how many Windrunners it would take to fly his horse home.