They plot to lay ambush to Breunis, but when the ambush is actually carried out things go bad and get strange. Alfred is missing. Wainscoting has lost an arm. He is brought to the nearby village to recover and reports that he was attacked by Geraint, recalling Geraint was supposed to be dead, slain by Lancelot three years ago. He claims that Alfred ran off and turned into a wolf.
Wainscoting is left with villagers to recover, and everyone else go to the sidhe.
The party is reunited. Gwyndon's SEF, Fionn, and Glorhendal go to seek out the Xvarti who Macon sold Constantine to. They find the lair taken over by bandits and a wererat. They find from the bandits that the Xvarti had been kicked out - relocated to a manor house, down river. On there way they help an ascetic retrive some writings from the hermitage of one of his deceased brethren.