After acquiring their disguises as Morticians and bureaucrats of the Eye, our Ministers had a brief sojourn into the glitter of the Silver Quarter, did some ill-advised gambling, and shed Arsene’s enthusiastic lover to get to their real mission: kidnapping and murdering an aelfir Lord. Unbeknownst to them, another aelfir, Lady Iliriana Embers-Ascending, is headed to the house of Orlando Thunder-Rolling-in-Summer-Fields at the very same time. What could possibly go wrong?