 They want the mensch to help them fight against the Sartan.Alfred goes exploring in Surunan, finds the library, with lots of extra Sartan warding runes around it, goes in, and is discovered by Samah, who clearly thinks Alfred snuck in on purpose to find a particular scroll, which Alfred hadn't noticed but is now very curious about.Grundle, Alake, Devon and Haplo return to the mensch seamoon in a ship provided by the dragon-snakes, where their families are happy to see them, but have to break the news that Sabia killed herself after they left.