Plot
Scythe Goddard demands the estate belonging to this wealthy businessman.
Who is Maxim Easley?
Goddard forces a wealthy executive to become a pool boy. This reveals that Goddard is this.
What is cruel?
Define alchemists. Example: “Medieval alchemists searched for a way to change ordinary metals into gold.”
Who are people who practiced an early form of chemistry, often seeking to transform metals?
Goddard takes control of this wealthy executive’s property.
What is Maxim Easley’s estate?
This wealthy executive owns the estate Goddard wants.
Who is Maxim Easley?
Goddard offers Easley and his family this protection in exchange for control of the estate.
What is immunity?
Faraday apparently sacrifices himself so Citra and Rowan will not be forced to glean one another. This makes him this.
What is selfless?
Define retinue. Example: “The visiting queen entered the hall with a retinue of advisers and guards.”
What is a group of attendants or followers?
Faraday is said to have stepped onto the tracks in front of a train at this type of location.
What is a train station?
This High Blade tells Citra and Rowan that Faraday is dead.
Who is Xenocrates?
Xenocrates announces that Scythe Faraday apparently ended his life using this method.
What is stepping in front of a train?
Citra openly challenges Curie after Barton Breen’s gleaning. This shows that Citra is this.
What is outspoken?
Define insinuation. Example: “The insinuation that Leo had cheated upset him because no one accused him directly.”
What is an indirect suggestion or accusation?
Citra is taken to this scythe’s unusual historic home.
What is Scythe Curie’s home?
This scythe becomes Citra’s new mentor.
Who is Scythe Curie?
After Faraday’s reported death, Citra is assigned to this new mentor.
After Faraday’s reported death, Citra is assigned to this new mentor.
Curie comforts the family of the person she gleaned and allows them to remember him. This reveals that she is this.
What is compassionate?
Define stagnant. Example: “Without new challenges, the club’s ideas became stagnant.”
What is inactive or not developing?
Curie’s house is built partly over this natural feature.
What is a waterfall?
This scythe becomes Rowan’s new mentor.
Who is Scythe Goddard?
After gleaning Barton Breen, Curie invites these people to her home.
Who are Breen’s wife and three youngest children?
Curie pretends to be furious with Citra in public to preserve the Scythedom’s authority. This shows that Curie is this.
What is calculating?
Define prostrate. Example: “During the safety drill, the actor lay prostrate on the floor.”
What is lying stretched out and face down?
Curie takes Citra here to select and glean Barton Breen.
What is a small town?
This man is selected and gleaned after Curie observes his defeated manner.
Who is Barton Breen?