Therkla sneaks into a castle past the patrolling guards and enters the room of Sangwaan the blind diviner as she's playing music, who has already laid out the scroll Therkla needs and invites her to drink mekhong together. The chain of events repeats as she's subsequently asked to retrieve a jewel, a mace, sushi, a fish, a bird, a teapot, a bonsai tree, and finally a numerology codice scroll to find auspicious wedding dates. Haru, however, only vows to leave with his girlfriend, who in turn refuses to leave her post guarding a castle wall, and Therkla needs Fong the Forger to create a formal discharge from her commanding officer so she can leave, though he also requests a favor first. When Therkla infiltrates the home, she offers the merchant and her husband a chance to escape the city (as it wasn't her lord who gave the order) if they give her the merchant's signet ring as proof she was killed, but they demand that she warn their son Haru at Cyan University. Being evenly matched, Kohaku eventually offers to let Therkla have the fan if she kills a noble spice merchant that Kin-Hu wants dead, since Kohaku can't sneak in due to her cat allergies.
Before she can steal the fan, she is confronted by her old rival Kohaku now working for Kin-Hu, and they duel while catching up on each other's lives until Kohaku tries to spoil the book to Therkla. While Therkla is enjoying her day off reading the new installment of a popular werewolf romance series, "The Dark Primal Bloodlines" (a week after it was released, since she was only paid the day before), she is instructed by Kubota to steal a fan from the estate of Lady Kin-Hu.
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