But it is not allowed to determine when someone should be gleaned, as people decided that requires a conscience, and it is unclear whether the Thunderhead has one.Faraday prays to the void, hoping there is something out there that can guide him and give him peace about the job he has been chosen to do. As the furious scythes try to capture and imprison him, Rowan uses the knives to escape. Rowan knows if he is chosen, he will kill any scythe that tries to force him to glean Citra. As she turned again he gave her a slap on the ass and quickly ran away before she did slice his throat. He brings Esme into the room and intimates he knows her relationship to the High Blade. Citra surprises Rowan by kissing him. Citra gave Rowan a hand up then a kiss on the lips and begun to walked away. Rowan asks if Faraday will really track the teen down, and Faraday says that it's punishment enough to have to live in fear for a year. One of Rowan’s friends likes to “splat.” He jumps from high buildings to kill himself because it’s mandatory that his parents pay for him to be revived. The scythe then stabs him in the throat. Scythe Goddard is a narcissistic serial killer who wants to train others to indulge their darkest desires.In this world, death is not terminal unless a scythe gleans you. Sure enough, Rowan becomes a pariah as other students spread rumors that he asked the scythe to kill Kohl, or killed Kohl himself. He also kills Goddard’s remaining followers and sets the grounds on fire, insuring that even the nanites cannot reanimate the corpses. A selected group of men and women, known as scythes, are allowed kill individuals in order to keep the planet from overpopulation. She puts on her scythe’s ring and then punches Rowan in the mouth for “killing” her in their previous fight. When it’s obvious they have formed a friendship, one of Goddard’s followers asks that Faraday not be allowed to have two apprentices, as they appear to be helping each other. "That will suffice. When Faraday finally stabbed him through the heart, during their final duel, the man thanked him for letting him die fighting. Although neither wants to be a scythe, they eventually enter into the apprenticeship with Faraday.The training is difficult, both mentally and physically. Slowly, without turning his head, Rowan opened his eyes and laid a smoldering gaze on Aelin. Ask and answer questions about books! The two broke Scythe law and had an intimate relationship. "Good day my ass, how are you not dead," Rowan said laughing. In order to survive, Rowan develops physically and mentally into a fine-tuned killer, but he knows Goddard’s vision of the scythe is wrong. You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author. Rowan had grabbed Citra by the wrist and spun her around to kiss her, forcefully yet again. "Oh please! In desperation, Rowan breaks her neck. Then Rowan denies any part in the scythes’ deaths to High Blade Xenocrates. On the second day of the Conclave, Citra and Rowan take the stage and wait to see which one will be chosen to be a scythe. Citra has her own plan, which she enacts when she is chosen to be a scythe. In his journal, Faraday refers to the past, when people used to pray to a God that was harsh and rendered terrifying judgements. "And how I love this girl," a person said behind her and that made her jump and pull out a knife from her cloak right next to his neck. He is excited when his latest splat took him four days to recover and that he cracked the marble sidewalk he fell on. As the winner, she will have to kill him. "Faraday, you still have a bad taste when it comes to refurnishing." "It will be an honor to be gleaned by you, Scythe Anastasia. So I do hope that you will send me those files, Scythe Anastasia." It is unclear, when no one appears to have read the Bible, how they know of these references.There is a reference to a winter holiday known as the Month of Lights that commemorated some ancient miracles that no one can remember. Everyone left and could only think how the world would be with a person who's went through tough training to become a scythe.That question had an answer in two months. She investigates in secret, as she knows Scythe Curie would not approve.Rowan learns a completely different view of Scythedom from Goddard, one of violence, power and entitlement. Scythe Curie manages to help Citra escape from the healing center before she can be arrested again. He wants to kiss her. As a test of their skills, they are forced to use martial arts to battle each other. Then he lets his three followers beat him to a pulp. Rowan was now only looking at the picture and could only smile and enjoy them. Over the years and with the help of the Thunderhead’s abilities, humankind eliminated disease, war, famine and even death. As Citra escapes, she sees the name on the paper is Van Der Gans and believes Curie is sending her to kill Faraday’s murderer. When Scythe Faraday offers her mother immunity for the dinner she served, she asks him to give it to her children instead, but he refuses. As retribution for Citra being set free, Goddard goes on a horrific rampage at a Tonist Temple. Goddard orders Rowan to kill the last remaining victim. When Rowan realizes Citra will not let him throw the fight to let her win, he breaks her neck and kills her. Goddard’s training includes having Rowan use real weapons to kill real people. He opens his robe to reveal a variety of weapons and says he will kill each of them as the mood strikes him. They take a helicopter to a gleaning so they can appear to swoop down from heaven. At the Winter Conclave, the final test to become a scythe is to kill someone close to you. She tells of a rumor that there is someone seeking out corrupt scythes and killing them with fire. The other will be allowed to return to his or her life. "Thank you for joining us this morning. I have passed all my tests with a blade so it is only natural," Citra said. Rowan suspects Goddard is blackmailing the High Blade in order to keep Goddard from being censured by the Scythedom. I'll send you my own pictures. Looming over Citra’s and Rowan’s training is the reality that the one chosen to be scythe will have to kill the other.Like Faraday, Scythe Curie believes in the old rules of the Scythedom, and trains Citra in the same manner.