Security escorts Breq and Seivarden into a palace audience room where two versions of Anaander Mianaai await them. Seivarden prostrates herself before the Lord of the Radch, following Radchaai etiquette, but Breq remains standing. Seivarden is bewildered when one of the Mianaais addresses Breq as “Justice of Toren.” Breq, meanwhile, observes that the presence of two versions of Anaander Mianaai means “[n]either trusted the other to hold this interview unsupervised, unobstructed” (331).

Seivarden still refuses to believe that Breq is a surviving segment of Justice of Toren, arguing that “no medic would give One Esk a body with a voice like Breq’s. Not unless she wanted to seriously annoy the Esk lieutenants” (332). This suggests again that the body known as Breq is the new segment added in Chapter 12. The Anaander Mianaai on the left orders Seivarden to leave, but Seivarden says that she will not separate from Breq, even when Breq urges her to leave.

Breq confronts the two Anaander Mianaais with their division against each other, adding that one of them destroyed Justice of Toren. At this point, Breq realizes that one of them has turned on a jamming device, breaking the connection between the two of them just as the connection between One Esk’s segments was broken in Ors.