Marlysa and his companions are miraculously saved, in extremis, by the alivos, and thus escape from the claws of volatile women who seem to be slaves to the master. Meanwhile, Tatrin always locked in the jails of the castle, meets Telsi and informs him of the death of her husband. Soon re-established, Marlysa decides to go to meet the tyrant while a mysterious force seems to have awakened in Dompour...