- Every night, Sadima begins to look at the songs she's copied for herself and figure out what the letters mean.
- The next day is King's Day, a holiday involving feasts and parades and stuff—but Sadima and Franklin have to work on copying the Gypsy book.
- Sadima decides that after the book is copied, she'll leave. She'll go back to her hometown, Ferne, and open a cheese shop. She'll remember Franklin, but she'll also move on.
- They make some major progress on figuring out the manuscript, though, and Franklin is so happy that he tells Sadima a secret: Somiss wants to open a school so that boys can learn magic and no one will ever go hungry again. Sounds nice, right?
- Sadima steps out on the balcony to watch the parade go by after they've been translating for a while. She sees the whole royal family, and then Somiss with his family. He looks pissed to see her, so she ducks back inside; she decides not to tell Franklin about it.