In this chapter, we learn that the outbreak of the plague was caused by a bird's-flu-like illness, which was transmitted by the bird. In the meantime, the king's guards have come to arrest the princess for her alleged role in the outbreak. The princess tells the guards that she is not responsible for the outbreak, and that the attackers were not the ones who released the undead. The guards agree to wait until all the evidence is presented, but the princess insists that they wait until they have all of it. She tells the court that the king came to help her win the battle against the undead, and she was spared the pain of killing him himself.