Gamad pummels the remaining two thugs, then after seeing that the pair look good and knocked out for the time being at least, trails after Pilgrim and Maelicent. Gamad pauses a moment to have a quick look at the two dead spiders inside the festhall. Neither is within his body of knowledge, but then again, neither is an aberration of nature, nor does either look to be a mere mistake from a wizard's laboratory. The spiders came from somewhere, but as to where, Gamad finds himself unsure. Inside the gambling hall, Lewit folds and stows his chessboard and gaming pieces. Having earlier seen Gamad summon and stow the wand, Lewit makes after Gamad.
Pilgrim, who is trailed by first Maelicent, then Gamad, Brakkus, and H. Lewit in quick succession, exits the kitchen and finds himself standing out back the Cockatrice. A narrow section of greenery replete with cook's herbs, a small vegetable garden, an outhouse, and a three-stall stable are wedged behind the festhall and the nearest neighboring building on the adjoining street. Pilgrim spies the lingering aura, faint, of what may have been the presence of an item or a spell. Whatever it was, it was cast in the middle of the garden. Judging by the rows of trampled leafy greens, someone has thrashed about and trod all over the garden.
Brakkus is the first to notice that the stable boy lies dead in front of Chop Liver's stall. Judging by the whites of his eyes showing wide and the nearly kicked in stall door, the horse is panicked. The creature kicks violently at the back of its stall, sending a groaning shudder through the ramshackle wooden stable. The noise is unavoidable and everyone plainly hears it.
