Ahriman is bored again and stalks the streets in search of anything amusing. He encounters a band of jugglers and finds them entertaining since they juggle crystal spheres containing minor Demons. As he walks home he is struck by a fanciful idea: Why shouldn't HouseNemalzhi too move their compounds? If a lousy 14th House can, surely he could do it too? Hurrying home he finds his idea getting some support from MatronNemalzhi and to a lesser extent from Zhe'raen.
The latter is preoccupied with pestering his troops with exercise after exercise and being generally miserable. The prospect of being "sold off" as some sort of pet to another Matron is horrifying to the freewheeling Weaponsmaster.
After managing to annoy MatronNemalzhi (with some help from Zarathustriel) he is sent away to get Halavin to pack his gear for the coming change of House. A sort of "end of excersise"-party is arranged and both Zhe'raen and GhulDril wind up exceptionally drunk, thus ruining the ceremonial initiaton of Zhe'raen into HouseNahena. GhulDril winds up on the sacrificial altar in the GrandTemple. He escapes being sacrificed but his glibness also robs him of breakfast at the Temple.
At HouseNahena things are less than friction-free. Zhe'raen encounters the HouseWizard, Ziirnael who is curt to the point of being rude. The third of Matron Zha'nels brothers is not available to anyone and is kept locked up in the basement. Zha'nel is busy overseeing the construction of balconies in the matronly suite and so (probably on purpose) insults Zhe'raen by being more interested in talking to the architect than to Zhe'raen.
After a while the Matron and the Patron of HouseNahena get to talking and it starts on a sour note and ends on a cool one. Eventually Zhe'raen finds at least some solace in the company of the brilliant soldiery of his new House.
GhulDril annoys MatronNemalzhi some more.
End of session.