In Rusali, their next stop on the way to Julah, the two meet Alric, a Northerner living in the South. Del rescues Tiger from the dungeon and they again set out on their quest. Tiger sleeps with the Princess, Elamain, and upon arriving in the city is drugged and taken as a prisoner by her prospective husband. After rescuing a caravan beset by raiders, Tiger and Del agree to go with the Princess that the wagons are carrying to her future husband in the city of Sasqaat. After a long recovery, they are given mounts and again head South towards Julah. During their stay, Del discovers that Tiger got his name for killing a Sandtiger that had been plaguing the camp and Tiger reveals that he knows Del's sword is filled with Nothern Sorcery. Just before they die from exposure they are rescued by the Salset tribe, the same group who kept Tiger a slave as a child. When she chooses to stay with Tiger, rather than with the chief of the Hanjii tribe, they are left in the desert with no mounts or water. The two are forced to fight, a conflict that Del wins by using the womans' "trick" of hitting a man squarely between the legs. They survive a sandstorm and are taken by the Hanjii tribe, a barbaric group of desert dwellers. As they cross the desert Tiger and Del find a pair of Sandtiger cubs, which Del decides to keep and raise, against Tiger's wishes.
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