After the Princess escapes Maeralssin she tries to locate and rescue her companions, who have travelled with her before the capture. Thus the Princess finds clues about whereabouts of Pia, who happens to be not so far away from the place of te party capture and frees her. If Rizzen will accompany the Princess at this stage he will have to be convinced to make a detour for the sake of finding Pia, but it will not be too hard. If only did he knew how much he will have to suffer from her chatter later...