Our five adventurers are imprisoned, unarmed, and naked. They make threatening demands to the guards, but they fall on deaf ears. A plead for compassion and mercy is met with equal callousness. One of the guardsmen of the nightwatch exchanges words with them, saying that he hasn't heard anything about the countess, or anyone else for that matter, favouring the lizardfolk. But the head jailer catches him in the act and relocates the young guard and his fluttering lips.
Their slumber is suddenly broken by guards who flood their cell, the adventurers are forcefully moved all the while a statement from the steward is read out loud to them. It explains that they are to be handed over to Dominion officials that are located in the city of Rimmen just across the border into Anequina, where they will receive a sentence for their crimes. Violence is not spared by the guards when the five are blindfolded and pinioned.
One by one, the jailers drag and push them outside where the air is damp and cold and then onto a barge that bobs in some body of water. Each one of them are bound with their backs against a wooden pole and the beastfolk are given some simple scraps of clothing, but not the men nor mer. A combination of exhaustion and the low temperature knocks Val-Hiira out upon the barge, so that she misses when someone rushes down into the canal shouting her name as the barge leaves Bravil.
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