In this chapter, Claire visits the gypsy camp in the Badlands in search of Lassan Favreau, and learns that the man in uqestion, accompanied by an inquisitive gypsy alchemist, has gone off to the Cave of Penance - where, as it turns out, he has awakened one more ancient evil, the Spider Goddess Nachali. It is once again up to Claire to put the evil back to sIeep - and then to have a vivid fantasy about it as she rests up after her ordeal.