Part I: Early Years, Early Training. Chapters 5 - 14 Summary

In Chapter 5, Harry is introduced to Kittredge for the first time. He meets her as Harlot's fiancée at the Keep and they go out for a walk alone. She kisses him briefly, and discusses some of her theories, including the biggest one about the duality of people's psyches into Alpha and Omega. She descries these as dual: Alpha optimistic and Omega pessimistic, Alpha day and Omega night. That evening, they return to the Keep, where her father reads to them from Titus Andronicus. Harry writes that later he will learn that her father likes to sleep with sleeping women and Kittredge once walked in on her father having sex with her drugged mother.

Chapter 6 deals with the wedding of Kittredge and Harlot, which many prestigious people attend. Harry...