Ranol drops in to visit his battered cousin who was recently rescued.

Jacquelyn comes to Bree and runs into her brother.

The dwarves meet for a council to decide their next course of action. And afterward, Thane Ovor and Frarin are approached by the boy Tamhill, who claims to have information they want.

Ovor, Frarin, Mayor Torebras and Thari meet in Staddle.

A hobbit barrels into the camp of dwarves, Rhifaroth is on his feet again, and Frarin can finally manage to say a few words.

Late night at the Bree summer faire is disturbed by a blaze in the distance.

Frarin is visited, or pestered rather, by the scamp Tamhill as he sits outside of Bree's Healing House.

The dwarves prepare the worst of the wounded for return to Bree. Tempers run high between Thari and Frarin and are none helped by the arrival of Bree's mayor, who gets a swift talking to from Thane Ovor.

Those wounded from the battle at Deadman's Dike begin to trickle into Bree and find their way to the Healing House.

The dwarves of Erebor and some tag-along Breelanders investigate the cause of Norli's death, whose body was recently discovered.