- The next morning Katsa asks Po to chop off her hair, but he thinks she should wait and have someone at the inn do it. She might get better results that way.
- Katsa agrees and they hit the road, with Po in the lead because Katsa's pace puts a bit of a strain on the horses.
- While they ride Katsa attempts to contact Po telepathically by thinking his name. Actually, she more or less screams his name in her head and just about knocks him off his horse. Po explains to her that it will work even if she uses her indoor voice for her thoughts.
- They practice communicating this way, with Katsa thinking his name and Po raising his hand each time he hears her. It's sort of their version of road trip game.
- That night for dinner, Katsa decides to try catching a goose with her bare hands, just to see if she can. (She can.)
- While dinner cooks, they get back to their training fights, which take on a whole new slant now that Katsa knows why Po's such a good fighter: he can sense her moves before she makes them.
- Over dinner they discuss the significance of Po's rings and earrings (Lienid nobles wear lots of jewelry) and the markings on his arms. This leads to a discussion of marriage, something neither Katsa nor Po have ever seriously considered—they're both pretty independent, and neither wishes to be married off just for the sake of securing land or producing heirs.
- As they're going to sleep that night (Po's tired, Katsa isn't—Katsa never is), Po tells Katsa a bedtime story of sorts: the history of King Leck of Monsea. Apparently he came into power after the former king and queen of Monsea adopted him and then mysteriously died. Along with their two closest advisors.
- Suspicious? Sure. But no one in the kingdom seemed to think so, and no one who's met Leck thinks he's anything but charming and sincere—despite his eyepatch, which one would think might make him look a little shifty.
- When Po falls asleep, Katsa finally allows herself to think freely about him, realizing that he unnerves her like no other man ever has, and not just because he can hear some of her thoughts.