Dear Lysa

When morning hits, Tanvast has been unable to escape. Poison knocks him over the head and talks with brob about their fortune at Tanvast not knowing about pine cones and their deadly effect. Tanvast pretends to be unconscious while listening in. Poison strips him, ties him up, and humilliates him further by braiding his hair as he tries to spit at her. The group tell Soft Eddie they just had a pleasant stop at a farm and then continue on their way.

The group arrives at the city and has a brief chat with some guards, who mention conversationally they will have to kill the party if they make trouble. Once inside the city, the girls head to market where they peruse some books, they scam a pair of earnest barbarians, and pet a gold pseudodragon. Somewhere in there, Poison feels an object in her items and takes it out, revealing a letter. She doesn't disclose the contents of the letter to the others.

After feeding a dead parrot to a beggar, they go to a magic shop to get the ring they got from the barbarians identified. They learn it's a ring of animal friendship and then have an unfriendly argument with the shopkeep who closes the door on them. They head back to Estbridge where Poison looks for information from the too-poised barkeep while Daisy immediately challenges the local roughs to a wrestling match, beating two of them before finally meeting her match in a masked dwarf who seems kindly enough.