Serion interrupts Viserys's lunch to confess that Damarya Allyrion poisoned him and may have designs on Daeron's life, prompting Viserys to order her seized, searched, and confined before she can harm herself or anyone else.
On a cool evening walk, Elanna and Kellyn discuss family and changing relations with the Dornish while Ryssa helps Serion with his religious studies, Aidan joins briefly, and Reyna's pregnancy draws both courtesies and cutting whispers.
Jyana seeks out Baelor in the Royal Sept and calmly refutes the claim that she has been unchaste with a Dornish hostage, leaving the devout prince shaken by the realization that Sarmion's accusation may have misled him.
Daeron visits Cadan in the Dornish Tower to discuss the treatment of the Dornish hostages, Cassella Vaith’s status as Aegon’s paramour, and the political implications of a possible royal betrothal to Princess Ariana Martell.
Marian Stark asks Viserys, on Brandon Stark's behalf, to consider sending suitable Dornish prisoners and city convicts to the Night's Watch, and Viserys agrees to authorize the Watch's choice from the city gaols while promising to put the broader Dornish question before Daeron.
Almer tells Daeron that he loves Keira Sand and cannot honorably marry Liane Uller, leading the king to release him from the proposed match while warning him to face his father's anger and keep his sword ready for royal service.
As Aegon's servants remove Cassella's belongings from the Vaith apartments, Cassella tells Liane she may become Aegon's mistress and begs her to keep Jossart from doing anything rash, while Serion grasps the danger of what Aegon has done.
Elanna petitions Viserys to consider Kellyn Lannister for Princess Naerys's household as a way to heal tensions with Reyna, but Viserys turns the audience toward the Baratheon guards' near-drawing of steel and instructs Elanna how Sarmion must publicly reduce his household guard.
Sarmion's thunderous prayers over Jyana's supposed sin draw Baelor and Astos into the Royal Sept, where Baelor claims the gods have shown him how to guide Jyana while Sarmion and Astos privately agree the Dornishman involved may need a harsher answer.
Jyana hosts a lavish seasonal masquerade where masked nobles and Dornish hostages mingle, dance, exchange gifts and compliments, and let old tensions show beneath the pageantry.
The galley, Warrior’s Sword, returns to King’s Landing with most of the survivors of the Sun Pearl’s sinking.
The knights from King’s Landing have found the ladies in the village and the battle to save them from the bandits is underway.
While three of the noblewomen discuss the disappearance of Elyn and Marian they receive unwelcome visitors from the Kingswood.
Tempers begin to rise as the ladies try to decide what to do next and the ramblings of an old crone in the village do little to assure the ladies of their safety.
The few guards with them have been successful in finding a bit of food and water. The ladies spend the evening around a campfire, though some are worse off than others.