The chapter begins immediately after Dart, Rose, Shana, Albert, and Haschel leave the Imperial City of Sandora. After just missing Lloyd, they arrive in the city of Fletz in Tiberoa in pursuit of the former; the party explores the capitol and discover Fletz is inhabited with majority tanned-skin citizens who believe in the stars as deities. While the inhabitants seem friendly, they also keep their doors locked in fear of the neighboring bandits in the Barrens. At the town's entrance, the party stumbles across a bridge named "Claire" which they discover is Haschel's missing daughter's name and Dart's mother's name.