Roho, the wandering fennec healer, and Flemm, a badger physician, are led into Sabaoth's palace, and are abandoned by their guide in a garden where Boghaz bar Sabaoth is speaking with a pretty young bat named Saraizadze. Boghaz leads the two physicians to see the Sabaoth, where they examine him and try to determine their diagnoses. Flemm demonstrates his treatment method on a Savanite slave … with disastrous results. The badger is driven out, leaving Roho to prepare some of his herbal teas, to pass Boghaz' inspection…