Scythe

Scythe Curie writes that she often gleans in her dreams. She has one recurring dream of carrying a pitchfork and trying to glean a woman, but the woman doesn't die as Curie stabs and stabs. She always wakes up screaming.

Citra does as she's told and changes publicars every hour for the next day. She changes into her Tonist dress and pulls the hood over her head, sometimes only narrowly avoiding scythes pursuing her. Curie told her to go to Amazonia. This is because scythes from around the world used to vacation and glean in Amazonia, which makes the Amazonian Scythedom unfriendly and unhelpful to other regions. In Buenos Aires, Citra joins a group of Tonists. She tells them she's searching for whether the bident rings in A-flat or G-sharp and then excuses herself.

In the bathroom, a man bursts in, puts a knife to Citra's throat, and tells her that he's going to glean her. She admits that she's a scythe's apprentice, and he explains that there are disguised Chileargentine scythes on the train looking for her. He leads her back to his car and introduces himself as Scythe Possuelo, from Amazonia. A man walks slowly up the aisle with a device in his hand that starts beeping as he gets close to Citra. She reveals herself and he announces that he's arresting her. Possuelo points out that they're in Amazonia now, so Citra can legally defend herself. Citra pulls out a knife and, seeing a porter coming, confirms that it's illegal for scythes in Amazonia to not wear their robes and rings. Citra asks for the scythe pursuing her to be kicked off the train.

Citra changes into street clothes from someone's luggage, and Possuelo advises her to take several different trains out of the next station to throw off her pursuers. Citra takes his advice and boards six trains before getting on a train to Caracas. She then follows the coastline east on foot, wondering what it will be like to confront a murderer. She knows that the Thunderhead usually prevents murder, but an ordained scythe would be able to murder. She thinks that scythes are powerful, yet extremely vulnerable.

Citra finds the house she's looking for and settles in to observe. She knows that she needs to just harm the murderer and extract a confession. She wonders if she could stay in Amazonia and never have to face Rowan again. As night falls, Citra sees her target come onto the patio. She fires a pistol at his knee and races to him. She grabs the man and then drops him in shock when she sees that it's Faraday.