The Festival of Lights brings out a new side of Dal Sherandu, with detentions suspended and celebrations running for two full days!

Released from a week of disciplinary punishment, Lance heads to the bar to reunite with his friends, and finds that Quercus was not at all discrete in hiding the reasons for his absence to the equally chastened novices.

A new server at the bar might just be a shy young kid hoping to follow in Rigney's footsteps someday, or may be something more?