Tiero is brooding in the bookwyrms' room when Mina comes to find him. The kits tumble over each other, almost full grown but still playful. "Are you still worried?" she asks, bending down. "Mmmm." Tiero looks away, avoiding her gaze. "Cheer up!" she says, standing up and smiling at him. "You can stay with us, remember? Inric said he'd sort it out. You can trust him." And that makes it worse, of course. Mina hurries away, leaving Tiero to return to his thoughts, and his memories of Prytanis' instructions. "We're all relying on thee."