Section 15: Chapters 36 & 37 Summary

After the regent and count leave in Chapter 36, Glisselda admits that Lucian had been right about them taking it poorly, but he insists they would have learned about half dragons eventually and they will get over it. Since Lucian still will not look at her, Seraphina knows he is not used to the idea either. When Papa apologizes for no longer being able to live in this prison, the Ardmagar Comonot is stunned that the man who defends the treaty lured Linn from draconian ways, and he does not understand why he cannot see what she saw; however as Papa leaves, Seraphina sees what Comonot does not: a core of decency, his struggle to do right, the grief of a husband, and the fear of a father. Comonot also tells Seraphina that Orma is at the seminary's infirmary, and Eskar will...