64 pages2 hours read

Brandon Sanderson

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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Part 3, Chapters 18-24Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 3, Chapter 18 Summary

In Torio, Painter begins bathing back-to-back with Yumi. He thinks about how Yumi’s personality seems to change—she was personable in Kilahito, but back in her world, she is prickly and orders him around again. Yumi insists that when Liyun arrives, Painter must apologize on his knees for his inability to stack rocks. Painter comments that Yumi will never get what she wants in the long term by acting this way; instead she will just push people away. Yumi replies that it is appropriate for the yoki-hijo to be alone.

When Liyun arrives, Painter reluctantly follows Yumi’s instructions, telling Liyun that he needs to return to training. Liyun considers this and then agrees. At the place of ritual, Painter struggles to grab rocks because they are hot, and Yumi instructs him on how to evaluate rocks. She has him pick up a stone and describes how to figure out its weight and center of gravity. Painter replies that art is about sharing emotions, not this. Yumi dismisses Painter’s idea as meaningless poetry.