The man beside him with the earrings and the big black case proceeded to unlock it. He took out of it two long Italian rapiers, with splendid steel hilts and blades, which he planted point downwards in the lawn.

The Urthman sailors in the audience draw their knives at this news. They attack and kill the Hierarch Venant, identified as Tzadkiel’s son. Again the aquastors (based upon people from Severian’s past) fight against the sailors. Gunnie helps Saverian (atonement for her betrayal of the Conciliator [ch. 34]) and the sailors are defeated. The aquastors dissolve (21).

Her foibles were flattery, fine feeling, and flabergast; and if not old enough to be his mother, sufficiently so to be a young aunt.

And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’