Date: 16 Ascending Air
The Circle decides to leave Ti'i wa'a wai after their recent brush with the Night-forged Deathknights. The morning reveals that the innkeeps daughter, who was flirting with one of the Abyssals, is missing. A short while later, she turns up, pale from apparent blood loss in spite of a lack of wounds, disheveled, and feverish. Meanwhile, a young man in robes carrying a staff enters the inn, and is quickly revealed to be a Lunar Exalt who has been tracking the Solars since they left Seven Willows. In the woods several miles away from town, the Circle is set upon by the Sorceror Li Long Sying.