Kamran waits in the rain outside Baz House, knowing he should not have come. After Kamran’s meeting with King Zaal, the king privately pressed Kamran for more details about the suspicious servant girl and ordered Kamran to continue inquiries while also fulfilling public obligations, including visiting the Fesht boy whose life Kamran had saved.

Kamran first visits Omid at the Diviners Quarters, where he learns that rare royal magic saved the boy’s life because Kamran’s call for help was interpreted as a royal command. Kamran resents Omid and questions why the boy begged not to be turned over to the magistrates. Omid refuses at first, then explains that prison is worse than death for children like him, shaking Kamran’s assumptions about Ardunian justice.

Kamran questions Omid about the servant girl. Omid says the girl spoke Feshtoon and had not given him bread directly but told him to come to the kitchens at Baz House if he needed food. Kamran insists the girl cannot be a real servant there, but Omid contradicts him and points to evidence Kamran had missed: the state of the girl’s hands. Kamran also recalls Omid’s history as an orphaned child of saffron farmers who died after imprisonment over unpaid taxes.

On the way out, Kamran is stopped by the Diviners, who silently give him a small parcel that he forgets in his cloak. Troubled by Omid’s account, Kamran goes to Baz House instead of openly questioning his aunt, choosing surveillance because his grandfather warned him that his behavior is now under scrutiny. As he waits, Kamran admits to himself that his motives are not purely patriotic: the girl’s mercy and contradictions have unsettled him, and he wants to prove she is either a spy or a fraud.

While waiting in the cold, Kamran confronts his deeper fear that he does not want to become king, marry a stranger, father an heir, or lose Zaal. When Alizeh finally appears in the alley, Kamran recognizes her and notices her grace, her injury, and the parcel she clutches. Seeing her raw, blistered hands proves she is indeed a servant, and realizing she has come looking for Omid to keep her promise fills Kamran with shame. Hazan finds Kamran as the prince understands that his suspicions have exposed his own arrogance rather than Alizeh’s guilt.