Having suffered injuries from the magical blast, the party takes an hour to hunker down in the now-wrecked safe room to recover. The wrack their brains over what may have happened to Wendella and Eve. Coriander asserts her determination to find her and return her to her parents. Eventually they leave the room and cautiously explore, seeking a way out. They hear a dog barking and decide to investigate a nearby door. Sartan cautiously opens the door as his companions guard the passageway, only to be rushed by a vicious 2-headed dog. It resembles the two-headed dog ridden by Berniece the Dwarf, but this one is smaller, and one of the heads seems to be of normal dog-like proportions, whereas the other one is distorted and monstrous. Sartan tries to bribe it with a bit of food to no avail. The creature shows no interest. He quickly slams the door.

They walk through the passageways, taking note of the faint hint of distant voices, and the occasional clang of metal. They try another door, and find what appears to be a study. It is furnished with a large oval table, chairs, several book cases and shelves. Among the items found here, Coriander identifies what must be a spell book, although she cannot read the writing. The cover bears an embossed 8-pointed star. Another book’s leather cover appears to have the skin of a human hand stitched into in. Inside are drawings and diagrams of body parts and bones disassembled and rearranged into grotesque and evil shapes. There are several unidentified scrolls, and various small containers of what appear to be spell components. Sartan, very suspicious of the “hand” book, decides to destroy it. Initially, Coriander is resistant to the destruction of arcane knowledge, but relents and Sartan points out that only something evil can come from it. He builds a pyre using some of the mundane books found on the shelves and throws the evil book on top. The heavy tome is slowly engulfed, and despite Sartan’s concerns, nothing unnatural seems to come of it.

in a nearby passage way, Davros encounters a pit trap. It is only his roguish dexterity that enables him to react, and jump back rather than plummet 20 feet down to a stone floor. He marks the location of the trap and returns to the study. There he and Sartan open a metal hatch in the floor. A wretched, undead creature leaps out and attacks. But Sartan and Davros, now much more experienced in battling such things are able to dispatch it.

Further explorations reveal the body of a dead goblin and bloody footprints leading into a rough-hewn passageway. The passageway seems to lead into a kitchen area. Here the party discusses taking a break and recovering from their wounds.