Severian refuses to sell the sword, shortly after which a masked and armoured hipparch enters the shop and challenges Severian to a duel. The shop is owned by a twin brother and sister, and the brother immediately takes interest in Terminus Est.
Not intending to participate, Severian parts with the group and stops at a rag shop to purchase a mantle to hide his fuligin cloak (the uniform of his guild, which inspires terror in common folk). Talos manages to recruit the waitress for his play and they set out into the streets. The are travelling mountebanks, who invite Severian to join them in a play to be performed the same day. He comes to an inn, where he first meets Baldanders and Dr. He departs the guild headquarters, traveling through the city of Nessus. Master Palaemon gives Severian a letter of introduction to the archon of the city and Terminus Est, a magnificent executioner's sword. Though Severian expects to be tortured and executed, instead he is dispatched to Thrax, a distant city which has need of an executioner. When finally Thecla is put to torture, Severian takes pity on her and helps her commit suicide, by smuggling a knife into her cell, thus breaking an oath to his guild. Her status permits her some luxuries, including the books that Severian is sent to obtain from the Master Ultan, the librarian. He next encounters and falls in love with Thecla, a beautiful aristocratic prisoner. Shortly thereafter, Severian is elevated to journeyman on the Feast of Holy Katherine. Severian saves Vodalus's life, earning his trust and the reward of a single gold coin. Vodalus and his companions are confronted by volunteer guards and a fight ensues. Vodalus, along with two others, including a woman named Thea, are robbing a grave. This is where Severian first encounters Vodalus, the legendary revolutionary. On his way back home to the Citadel, where the guild makes its home, Severian and several other apprentices sneak into a necropolis. Severian is an apprentice in the torturers' guild. The book opens with the protagonist, Severian, barely surviving a swim in the River Gyoll.
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