After the battle at the abbey, the survivors abandon the ruined monastery and settle in the camp left behind by Sabbas and his hunters. Wrapped in Sabbas's cloak and drinking his wine, Sunny and Alex take comfort in the fact that they are still alive while Baptiste stitches Jakob's wounds. Brother Diaz, Balthazar, and the others reflect on their survival, and the group agrees that the hunters who fell into the plague pit are not coming back and those who escaped are unlikely to return.

As the immediate danger ebbs, the company begins to think about what comes next. Jakob argues that, thanks to the supplies, horses, and money left in the camp, they should make for the coast, find a port such as Kavala, and sail on to Troy. Alex presses them on what will happen once they arrive, and Brother Diaz can offer only uncertain hopes that Duke Michael may already have reached Troy with Cardinal Zizka's help and perhaps arranged support through Lady Severa. Alex remains unconvinced, showing that even with Sabbas defeated, the larger mission is still precarious.

Vigga then returns from the woods, to Sunny's delight. Instead of killing the Dane, Vigga reveals that they had sex under the full moon, which turns the campfire gathering from grim recovery into drunken, vulgar laughter. When the conversation turns toward Brother Diaz, Vigga accidentally reveals that she and the monk have also slept together, and Diaz drunkenly escalates the confession from one encounter to four. The revelation shocks and amuses the others, briefly strengthening the group's sense of shared absurdity after the horrors they have survived.

In the midst of the joking, Sunny tries to draw a lesson from the night: the world is bitter, so people must seize whatever joy they can. Her attempted toast ends with her vomiting on herself, but Alex gently helps her away from the fire and into Sabbas's lavish tent. There, Sunny thanks Alex for helping her, and Alex answers by acknowledging that Sunny protected her when she was being hunted.

Alone together on Sabbas's bed, the attraction that has been building between Sunny and Alex finally surfaces. Sunny kisses Alex and, after a brief uncertainty, Alex kisses her back and echoes Sunny's drunken philosophy about grasping at joy in a bitter world. The moment marks a new intimacy between them, but it ends awkwardly and comically when Sunny, still too drunk, vomits again on the floor.