Modi, Calida and Eep have caught their breath and are preparing to enter the Absconditrum. With the help of a cable weapon and each other, they quickly manage to get through a window on an upper floor. Inside, they find the bickbearels, who are in a resting state after the fight. This way, the heroes can quietly concoct a plan, but they must remain on their guard.

Shante and Hotan arrive at the Poison Puddles and set up their makeshift lab. They set up four clone sarcophagi that they had already prepared, and connect them to the experimental growth accelerator.

Patrol Guard Yeena arrives at the Ice Peaks and informs the Delegation of Lokos about the situation. The surprise is great when they're confident that the life-threatening driver of the cargo goldo is Shante Wiberi, the merciful rose woman. The Delegation splits up, Pjotr ​​Yeena and Toke Pat use one gatekeeper goldo to return to Lokos to report there. Korul Xufol, Fer de Frappé and Jacques 'Jack Fishhook' Hameçon go with the other gatekeeper goldo toward the icy passage.

Odia Scuto Rubro moves to the Pecinca on foot, quite a walk across their estate. The Pecinca Scuto Rubro is located at the end, behind and under the adjacent city wall of the city. There she first looks from the outside, from the top of the wall, at the entrances of the Pecinca, which lead to concealed underground passages. Here she sees that only gold stone coins seem to be moved out. Because she wants to enter through the secret entrance of the Pecinca to be on the safe side, she also has to walk all the way back to the family tomb, where that secret entrance is.

Meanwhile, she is in contact with General Dronov about her uncle Teros, who seems to know nothing about Angus' plan. Dronov sends Odia to one of the soldiers in the Pecinca to have her escorted to the reserve base. He himself is in the middle of the huge column of military units, which is busy making the army's supply line between the Weatherlight, and the reserve base in the city center.