Kala

When the chains fell away Kala embraced Falstad, calling him brother, and asked whether he had found the book. Falstad then explained that she had let herself be captured on purpose: through their shared blood he could follow her and open a door into the Collector's vault that he could not have opened otherwise. Asked how much she had known, he said she knew enough.^{7 8}

Kala agreed to join Raphael's company after a few days' rest, and Falstad promised to send the texts he had translated with her. That night she was waiting in Raphael's room, a note in her hand.^{9 10}

By morning she was gone, leaving word that urgent news had called her away and that she would be back in the afternoon. Later she and a worn-looking Falstad met Raphael in his private room at the inn. When Raphael opened the earlier note, the symbol written in purple ink became a name he understood inside his head but could not speak aloud; Kala understood it too.^{11 12 13}

In the end Kala chose to go with her brother and stay with him until he died or was safe, and the two of them meant to take refuge at a monastery in the north.¹⁴

After the emperor had been murdered, a slight, hooded woman Raphael knew as Kalisya came to him in the square. She brought word that her brother knew who was behind the killing and asked Raphael to come to the East Gate that night if he wanted to know. She admitted that she did not know what her brother wanted, and that it made her uneasy. Instead of going, Raphael told Derek Sunshield that the owner of the book was in the city and that the wizard's sister said he could name the emperor's killer.^{15 16 17}