A Three-Round Tournament From the introduction: Yesterday was the most exciting, the most frightening, and the most harrowing day in your short lives. In the morning, you were street waifs scrounging for food on the streets of the city of Jeffiah. Then you discovered that there was something strange about the boy Ala’i who had recently joined your band of abandoned and outcast children. He was sought by assassins – a price had been put on his head by someone in the palace.