Bryce and Hunt go down to the banks of the Istros River to meet with one of the denizens of the water. “The river folk were notoriously secretive, their city beneath the surface—the Blue Court—a place few who dwelled on land would ever see. One glass sub went in and out per day, and those on it traveled by invitation only” (400).

A mer named Tharion comes to the surface to meet them. He is the Captain of Intelligence for the River Queen. Hunt asks him to keep an eye open for any corpses in the river that met violent ends before being dumped into the water. Tharion agrees to check and get back to them.

Bryce and Hunt next go to question Sabine. If she lies about substituting the video footage from Luna’s Temple, they will know she is their thief. The duo receives a hostile reception at the wolves’ den in Moonwood. Connor’s younger brother Ithan is especially angry since he knows Bryce betrayed Connor with another man on the night when his pack got slaughtered. All the embarrassing texts from Bryce’s phone that night were published in the papers, giving the wolves plenty of incentive to hate her.