Three full days passed while Ayla tended Conradin's wound. What had begun as blackened and festering flesh gradually returned to a healthy color. At dawn on the fourth day she asked Mara and Lysa to help close the injury, and together they stitched it with thread spun from Death-Spider silk, harvested by the Barbarians inside the Frozen Forest.
Thanks to the schools and research institutions spread around the Stahl Kingdom, established by Henry, new technologies and knowledge was being produced. The curative power of the Death Spiders was such an example. It could hasten the recovery and treat against infections. Luckily, Conradin, who had little interest in medicine, failed to notice the faint silver color of the sutures.
The distrust and anger subsided together with the fever, making the life of the sisters much easier. They received new boots and there were no more ropes binding their wrists or ankles. Goodwill was slowly building up towards the sisters.