The Mothers spent the next day shopping, getting rid of unwanted weapons and turning gems and jewellery into hard gold pieces. They also got some potions, a ring and a wand identified. The ring proved to be a real prize, a ring of free action. They decided that Guthranka would wear it. The wand was somewhat more intriguing, a wand of defoliation, the Mothers weren't sure what they would do with this, but they felt that it might have its uses. Gaspode then read a Manual of Stealthy Pilfering as Jito decided that he needed some study, and they both went into training for a week. Guthranka came back with the news that they had to trade in the Manual of Golems to the temple in order to pay for her "treatment". Once all this was accomplished the Mothers set off again for the point where they had materialised just over a week previously. Almost as soon as they arrived they saw a dragon approaching, but this time it did not change its form. It landed near enough to them to shake the ground and to cause Fonesca to seek Guthranka's steadying shoulder. But in another instant they stood on a high, ice-clad pass in the mountains and looking around they recognised the campsite where they had been ambushed previously.