Kani, undercover as "Rilikin", pays a visit to Maza after Candlemass, to comfort the vixen, and to present a dress as a gift. They go out shopping in the Bazaar, running into the Vykarin shell-worker, Rasha, as well as the Technopriest Buran and the Exile Envoy. Back at Maza's apartment, "Rilly" and Maza find that it has been trashed. Kani proposes to Maza, and she accepts.