Nimbus experiences a lucid dream that ends with her awakening in the middle of the night. Nimbus snapping awake suddenly startles a small dark figure that had been crouched outside the window of her room and before she can react, the mysterious figure vanishes from sight. Nimbus's shout sends Caddell Griffith rushing in while the others snap awake from their slumber.
Caddell Griffith sends his owl familiar, Celeste, to attempt to follow the intruder but eventually loses sight with the small figure as it vanishes into a crack along the city walls just north of The Old Oar Inn. Stella "The Frozen" Sheethnae frantically scours the room to see if anything else was amiss and eventually notices she is missing her magical boots.
The Bucket Brigade rush to try and intercept the mysterious intruder by giving chase and entering the same small crevice in the city wall to try and track him down. Eventually they head up a flight of stairs and end up on the top of the wall where they eventually find a silken rope leading down the eastern side dropping into the bay of Marsember. Nimbus and FeatherFace jump into the brackish waters but come up empty. Caddell Griffith casts fly on Stella "The Frozen" Sheethnae and sends her off to investigate a trio of ships sailing into the harbors.
Stella's investigation of the 3 vessels also comes up empty handed. Ebony Gray notices some glistening liquid on the silken rope they discovered and examines it by tasting it while Caddell Griffith attempts to smell the liquid they had now determined was some form of mucus. They both start to gag violently, but Ebony Gray becomes incapable of breathing and begins gasping desperately trying to inhale to no avail.
Unable to breathe, Ebony throws herself off the top of the wall and drops into the water below in desperation. She soon realizes her instincts were correct. Whatever she had licked had caused her to no longer be able to breathe outside of water. They call of the search and a few hours later, Ebony Gray is no longer affected by the mucus and can breathe without the assistance of water.