Summary

In Chapter 1 of Part 10, the omniscient narrator follows the possessed Booth (whose body is now rotting) through Grey London. Meanwhile, Edward Tuttle (who we last saw in Part 1 at the Stone's Throw) is waiting around the tavern for Kell. He observes an accident—a horse-drawn cart colliding with a man. When he approaches to look under the cart, there is no man, only a smear of ashes. He touches the ashes and becomes possessed by the dark magic.

As they walk through Red London in Chapter 2, Lila tells Kell about her past – her mother is dead and her father tried to sell her to pay a debt. They bond over the fact that they have both killed before. They pass a scrying board, which is like a magical billboard, and see that it is reporting Kell as missing and advertising a...