Plot
Faraday begins training Citra and Rowan in weapons, poisons, martial arts, and this overall discipline.
What is killcraft?
Citra continues to cry over the gleanings she witnesses. This demonstrates this trait.
What is compassionate or sensitive?
The techniques and skills used by scythes to end lives are collectively called this.
What is killcraft?
Faraday stores his guns, blades, and poisons in this room.
What is his weapons den?
This mentor teaches Citra and Rowan a wide variety of gleaning methods.
Who is Scythe Faraday?
Citra is allowed to leave Faraday’s home briefly to attend this family event.
What is her aunt’s wedding?
Faraday teaches many subjects and methods because he wants his apprentices to be thoroughly prepared. This reveals this trait.
What is disciplined, thorough, or demanding?
To become less emotionally affected by something after repeated exposure is to become this.
What is desensitized?
Citra feels isolated when she briefly returns to her family at this event.
What is her aunt’s wedding?
This apprentice dislikes keeping a journal but carefully researches the possible gleaning subjects.
Who is Rowan Damisch?
Faraday gives Rowan the responsibility of selecting this.
What is the subject of Faraday’s next gleaning?
Rowan researches all four possible subjects rather than judging them only by their photographs. This demonstrates this trait.
What is fair, thoughtful, or unbiased?
The required number of people a scythe must glean during a period of time is called this.
What is a quota?
Rowan searches this entire region for possible gleaning subjects.
What is MidAmerica?
This apprentice attends her aunt’s wedding but leaves after feeling uncomfortable and avoided.
Who is Citra Terranova?
Rowan’s Thunderhead search narrows the possible gleaning subjects to this number of people.
What is four?
Rowan tells the selected man that his daughter still loves him before the gleaning. This reveals this quality.
What is empathetic or compassionate?
The specific conditions Rowan enters into the Thunderhead to narrow his search are called these.
What are search parameters?
Faraday carries out Rowan’s chosen method of gleaning at this natural location.
What is a river?
This fourth-grade girl survives the food-court gleaning after hiding under a table.
Who is Esme?
During the food-court attack, the blue-robed scythe finds Esme but does this instead of gleaning her.
What is granting her immunity and taking her with him?
The blue-robed scythe and his companions attack the food court with blades and a flamethrower. Their behavior demonstrates this trait.
What is brutal, cruel, or merciless?
An act of bravery performed by someone whose regular job does not involve rescue or protection is heroism in this type of capacity.
What is a nonprofessional capacity?
Esme hides beneath a table during a mass gleaning in this public location.
What is a food court?
This scythe finds Esme, grants her immunity, and promises her the life she has always dreamed of.
Who is the blue-robed scythe, Scythe Goddard?