A tense camp scene opens when a distraught woman appears claiming she died horribly and accuses Maya of causing her death. Camp followers panic and a messenger reports a 'ghost' to Commander Wren. Wren dismisses superstition but demands order: he tells Flint to give the woman twenty lashes and send her to Durcrest. Voices clash—someone accuses Tristan of punishing "my woman" while Lord Stark warns that spreading panic is a capital crime. The lashes begin and the woman's cries rise; the episode closes with the camp bracing for harsher reprisals.