Young Jacques tells Airboy secretly that 35 men have disappeared in a span on 10 days, some of them being prominent government officials. Airboy discovers that each of the men were related directly to someone who was a leader of the people in the French Revolution......and Jacques is one as well. And all disappeared in the area of large sewer openings, which could be the hideout of the legendary Crabmen.; The son of the ruler of Khal Bakir Province is turned out of the house because he was raised by an Englishman. He finds the Heap, travels with him, until one night a kindly old sailmaker is discovered by the Heap to actually be a pirate that was hijacking his father's goods and Ibn Shammar is ordered to stop the pirate. When he does, he is in for the shock of his life!