Dragonstone 4

Chapter 4
Samurai Chick and Yngli return with flowers and snow after Arin has finished torture-healing Egil. Arin makes tea, and we learn again that Thar absolutely sucks as a healer.
A couple of pages wander by, and Arin asks Orri (the captain of the Dragonship Egil was on) whether Egil is married or betrothed. Orri laughs and say that “He be free wi' th' women, and they be free wi' him.”
So Egil is a man-whore. I guess this is supposed to make him seem carefree and friendly, but if the character was female -”She be free wi' th' men, and they be free wi' her” - it would be a clear sign of sluttishness and despicable, shame-worthy behavior. Sexual double standards!
Upon learning that Egil is sexually available, Arin decides to have him brought to her quarters at Blackstein Lodge. This prompts Yngli to make a joke about how he'd invite Samurai Chick to come to his place, “but I think my wife w'd take an axe t' me.”
Samurai Chick replies “If I did not take my sword to you first.” Yngli laughs, then realizes that she's dead serious. She would straight-up murder him for daring to express interest in her.
Again, this does not say “badass and awesome;” this says “unstable and bloodthirsty.”
We finally get our first hint of the Plot as Samurai Chick asks Arin if Egil is “the man of your Seeing?” Arin says maybe, but it could also be Alos, so they have to take him along as well. And where is Alos? Where would you expect him to be? He's asleep under a table, surrounded by empty mugs “and sleeping in his own vomit.” \~/\~/
Samurai Chick objects on the grounds that Alos is disgusting and filthy, to which Arin essentially says, tough. Samurai Chick growls “Jikoku,” which Google Translate informs me means “Time of day.” \~/ 
So Samurai Chick drags Alos out and they depart, leaving “a thin thread of vomit-tainted drool” as one final fillip of disgustingness. \~/
Drinks: 4
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