BD and Avis sold the drake to Tress for 3,000 gold pieces. Villeneuve consider that the group that owes them a favour for ensuring Tress bought the drake from them.

Sa-Cha is out campaigning and selling door-stopper products: Cherroine and fungus creams. The new assistant, Isabella Pangol, appears to be quite efficient.

Rasmus is out canvassing when a black coach arrives to take him to Céline's house, an old flame who eventually married somebody else in High Town. Their relationship was eventually broken up by Kieran Wryrden. Upon returning to the Foreign Quarter, the group heads to the city watch to complain about election interference and stumble upon Rasmus' house on fire.