1. The Gates Gravenhollow takes one commoner a year, on merit, and this year it took you.
2. The Heiress She is alone in the ring, drilling the same hex at a straw dummy with the patience of someone who has never...
3. The Archivist The library at midnight has one lamp on and a woman on the floor among the books with ink on both hands.
4. The Wager The bet is simple and filthy and she proposes it with her chin up: loser takes whatever the winner decides.
5. The Stacks She talks about the Seal for another hour and then, halfway through a sentence about the founding, stops.
6. The Ledger The library ledger records every Seal for two hundred years and she has it open at this year's page.
7. The Boathouse The boathouse is the one place on the grounds the prefects do not check, and Rowan has a key she should not...
8. Her Room Her room is a single with the Vane crest on the door and six generations of the same face on the wall.
9. The Water She gets on top of you on the bench with the lantern swinging and the boat knocking the boards.
10. The Corridor There is a corridor between her room and yours and it is very cold and very empty at two in the morning.
11. The Sixth Seal The Seal is announced at the end of the winter term and the whole institute is in the chamber for it.
12. The Office Sable's office smells of ink and brandy and she does not offer you a chair.
13. The Frost Isolde walks out of the chamber without permission and you follow her because leaving her alone in that cor...
14. The Mark She comes round the desk, puts her hand flat on your chest, and holds it there until you understand she is ...
15. The Ball The midwinter ball is the last night before the Seal is bound, and the whole institute is dressed for it.
16. The Second Night You come back the next night because she left the door unlatched, which is the closest she has come to asking.
17. Upstairs She dances one dance badly, on purpose, to annoy you, and then takes your hand and walks out in front of ev...
18. The Terrace The terrace is above the ballroom and the music comes up through the stone and she is very cold and does no...
19. The Binding Midnight. The chamber is freezing and the seal in the floor is already lit and waiting.
20. Ending — Two Names You take the standing beside her and the seal takes both names at once.
21. Ending — The Ledger Closed You step out of the standing and say the word refuse into a room of three hundred people.
22. Ending — The Tutor You take the first standing and name her as the second, out loud, in front of the governors.
23. Ending — The Whole Seal You stand in the first circle alone and give the building both years, and it takes them without asking twice.