Alfred talks to Orla again about the horrors of the Labyrinth, and about how the Patryns are fierce and loving and loyal. Alfred accidentally ends up embracing Orla. He asks her what is concealed in the library, then goes and sneaks into the library through the roof, which has weaker warding runes. Orla, alone at her home, realises that her life with Samah has been devoid of love, and that she is in love with Alfred, who has the power not only to feel love himself but to induce it in others, in making her feel empathy and compassion for the Patryns and the mensch. Orla goes to the library, and finds Alfred, who has read in the scroll that several Sartan had sensed the existence of a higher power, just as Alfred did whilst in the Chamber of the Damned on Abarrach. Orla tries to justify why she and the others who discovered the higher power didn't resist the Sundering more strongly. Samah finds them in the library, and at once concludes that Orla is colluding with Alfred and the Patryns. Alfred does not resist when Samah decides to imprison him.