Our Heroes meet Faustus at the Blue Alseid inn where they discuss important information recently uncovered about Apollonia's disappearance. While there, they bump into Proteus and tempers run hot as he talks about the deal he is making with the Leonin and the Meletians. Everything comes to a head when Proteus is provoked and in turn challenges Thesseus to a fight. Is Thesseus strong enough to defeat his own father?