"That's a dragon egg, isn't it?"
"The higher we climbed, the more terrifying creatures lurked in the shadows."
Ezran, Rayla, and Callum wind up recuperating in a cave and resolve to do something to help the egg, which has been worsening. They find a town where a man wielding a Sunforge blade effortlessly defeats a bigger man with a BFS. Rayla goes to ask him for help in getting her bracelet off and defeats him handily, but the blade is unable to cleave her binding. Meanwhile, Callum and Ezran find a veterinarian and reveal the egg to him. He directs them to a young girl named Ellis, who recounts how a mysterious woman restored her wild dog Ava's missing leg on the Cursed Caldera. The group starts climbing up a mountain when an angry mob chases Rayla.
Soren and Claudia begin their search mission. When Soren's hounds lose the princes' trail quickly, Claudia starts putting together the ingredients for a tracking spell.
Tropes:
- Age Cut: Ellis' flashback starts with a transition from adult Ava to puppy Ava.
- All Animals Are Dogs: Wolves are closely related to dogs, but even tame wolves don't act as doglike as Ava does - and they don't have expressive eyebrows like dogs do either.
- Chekhov's Gun: Rayla's braid, which was shot off by an arrow and pinned to a tree in "Bloodthirsty", is discovered by Soren and turns out to be exactly what Claudia needs to fuel her tracking spell.
- Flourish Cape in Front of Face: Rayla does this at one point as she's doing her human impression.
- Foreshadowing: Twice in the same scene: Ezran talks to a horse, who "saw something really scary" that didn't cause any actual physical harm.
- Glowing Flora: The cave Claudia seeks out to find ingredients for her tracking spell is home to a mini-biosphere lit by bioluminescent mushrooms.
- Harmless Freezing: Ezran jumps into a lake beneath a sheet of ice in order to save the egg of the Dragon prince from being forever lost. Despite holding his breath for several minutes underneath frigid waters, he's fine moments after he comes out. Zigzagged, Callum spends the opening scene telling Ezran to stay close to the fire, and the egg being submerged in icy water is nearly fatal to the unborn dragon.
- Hot Blade: Any weapon forged by Sunfire Elves can stay hot for hundreds of years, allowing it to cut through anything as if it were butter. That is, anything except magically-imbued objects, such as Rayla's oath bracelet.
- I Have This Friend: Callum and Ezran postulate their friend "Jofus" dropping an egg into an icy lake. The veterinarian kindly calls them out on this.
- Insistent Terminology: When the party finds a humanonoid snow statue, Rayla insists on calling it a "snowelf" when it was clearly made by humans. She even breaks its carrot nose in two to make a pair of horns for it.
- I've Heard of That — What Is It?: The group witnesses a man using a glowing blade. Rayla explains that it's a Sunforge blade. Ezran comments "I can't believe I just saw a real Sunforge blade ... What's a Sunforge blade?"
- Kindly Vet: The veterinarian the heroes meet does his best to help, even if he's helping a dragon.
- Miles Gloriosus: The man with the dagger boasts of having fought countless creatures from Xadia, and he does use his dagger to beat a much larger man with a BFS, but he turns out to be no match for Rayla.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Rayla expresses her discomfort with climbing up a mountain called "The Cursed Caldera".
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When Rayla burns her glove off with a Sunforge dagger trying to sever her oath bracelet, she refuses to dispose of the only witness and even returns his likely looted blade. Guess who leads the lynch mob after her later?
- Stripping the Scarecrow: Rayla steals the hand gloves from a snowman (snowelf!) in order to disguise her Four-Fingered Hands.
- Sympathetic Magic: Claudia needs a personal item in order to generate the spell that locates the heroes. Rayla's braid does nicely.
- Torches and Pitchforks: The braggart gathers a mob to confront Rayla and they chase her out of town.
- Weapons Breaking Weapons: The protagonists witness a man with a dagger defeat an opponent with a huge BFS and chop the sword to pieces in the process. Rayla explains that his dagger was forged by the Sunfire Elves, and as such the dagger is enchanted to remain the same temperature it was when it was forged for centuries after, explaining why it cuts through steel like butter.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Rayla, who normally has a prominent Scottish accent, tries to imitate a Southern accent to pass as human, and winds up with a horrible mash-up of the two.
