On a boat sailing across the Meneanor Sea to Sumna, Achamian awakens from a Seswatha Dream. He dreamed of the dragon Skafra. On the deck, Nroni sailors pray to the God of dice, Momas, Aspect of storm and sea. In bed with a prostitute named Esmenet, Achamian experiences the Fevers again; a disease that possessed him six years ago and almost killed him. Esmenet bitterly says that her daughter died that same year. He confides in her his plans to turn Inrau and says that he must find him the following day. Esmenet says the two of them, harlot and sorcerer, make a sad couple.