To which end Linya is nothing if not sympathetic. But she will feed him when he wishes to be fed.

When Miles is mostly better, Linya makes plans with Ekaterin to go to an arts festival, at which may be found many arts. Linya plans to get as much of her Winterfair shopping as possible done there, since everyone she knows already has a pen and it is not traditional to compose people songs for Winterfair.