Ciri's good deed goes horribly wrong. Jaskier flirts with a prince. Gerald fights a monster straight out of The Forest.
Tropes:
- Body Horror: The women in the monster's lair - talking heads on tentacles! Where are their bodies?
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Fringilla's punishment is to be locked in a wine cellar with others sentenced to death, forced to drink Emhyr's wine nonstop to see whether it has been poisoned. She's constantly drunk to the point of pain and knows she could die at any time, as we see when the man she's talking to collapses after taking a drink.
- Exact Words: Someone else's words, in this case. When Rience comes to Codringher and Fenn's house, having learned about Geralt's visit there, he picks up their cat and holds a conjured flame close to its neck. Fenn begs "No, not the cat!" and Rience demands that they tell him everything they know. We then see him walking out of their burning house, with their screams coming from inside... but he's brought the cat with him.
- Meat Moss: Makes the Creepy Cave so much worse.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: Cahir's punishment for lying to Emhyr is to be demoted to the lowest rank and defend the most dangerous assignments until he dies in combat.
- Transhuman Abomination: The monster Gerald fights. So that's where their bodies went.
- Wham Line:
- "He's been talking to Nilfgard."
- "We're tied by destiny"
