[@dragonmancer] One thing: Eyra wouldn't go out into the city. She's gone back into the Golden Palace, which is, as I've said, a fortress, stuffed with hundreds of armed-to-the-teeth Pit Guards. You can't get in short of cutting your way through scores of the most skilled soldiers in the world while in a weakened state, or going over the walls; and either way, I have to warn you that you won't get out of the Palace alive. That goes for everyone else too: if your entire plan is "show up in front of Eyra and whine at her", you gonna die.