"Gethen," said a voice.

It was Lady Gisela. Gethen didn't even know why he had picked up the imparter when he already knew it was Lady Gisela. She was telling him to come to Candleshade because he had to wash Keefe's memories.

He scoffed on the inside. Gisela had to stop telling her son the Neverseen's secrets.

But he would go anyway. No reason letting the secrets linger in the foul child's brain (that's Keefe in Gethen language).

Gethen wondered what secret Gisela had "spilled" to her son this time.

Maybe Nightfall?

Or something else...

He lightleaped to Candleshade and put on his addler, so that Keefe wouldn't suspect a thing in case he awoke in the middle of the washing process.

He stepped onto the Vortinator and went up to the 72nd floor, as per Gisela's instructions.

She had also notified him that Lord Cassius wasn't home, and he was doing some Emissary work, so no need to be *too* cautious.

He knocked on the door and a female's voice cried out to him, "Ah, finally you're here. Come quick."

He made his way across the room to where Lady Gisela was and found Keefe slumped on the floor in a messy heap.

"Ok, now I'll let you get started." Gisela told him.

Gethen placed his hands on Keefe's forehead and shuddered at the touch of it. Lady Gisela was still in the room watching his carefully.

Keefe's head looked exactly like how a messy bedroom would have looked like. He was still a toddler, so he obviously didn't know how to organize and store them away carefully, but it was still very unorganized.

In one pile there were random memories. One from when he was 3, one from a few months ago, and another one from 2 days ago.

Gethen's consciousness "swam" through the mess of memories and found the most previous ones. He carefully used his consciousness to store the memories in an imaginary clear bubble. Then he pretended that he was popping the bubble with his mind and poof!

The memories scattered, all together in one direction, away from Keefe's brain and into Gethen's brain. Gethen actually knew a lot more about Keefe than he would have preferred, but that was only because SO many of Keefe's memories got pushed into Gethen's mind.

Gethen hastily pulled his hands away from Keefe's forehead before he would get shocked.

After washing someone's memory, you had to pull your hands away quickly or else you would get zapped with a little bit of tingly energy left from the memory. If you got zapped, the memories that were washed would immediately return to the person and all your hard work would be undone.

Gethen left soon, right after assuring Lady Gisela that he would go to Forbidden cities in 5 days to find the Moonlark, because Umber had had no success in doing so.

He went to Valkonian to spend the rest of the afternoon, doing more research about the human world and practicing his abilities.