Bagani’s attendants ask if they should go home or spend the night outside. They joke about Bagani not wanting to go home to Marikit, and agree that she’s pretty scary, trying to use a love potion on her husband. Bagani says it’s a good thing he was saved from drinking it. His attendants advise him to accept his wife, and he dismisses them in a huff, saying he wants to be alone for a while.
Bayang, meanwhile, is brought before the rajah to answer for her lie.
Angaway shows Hilway the new tattoo he had earned, but she’s preoccupied– she’s now pretty sure that she knows who the woman of the prophecy is, but she declines to name her to Angaway, saying she’s got to make sure the busaw she’d asked wasn’t tricking her. So she devises some tests…
Lumad meanwhile asks Amaya why she wants to escape. She’s already free and an alabay. Why should she want to escape a place that is now being good to her? Amaya answers that he doesn’t understand. Lumad gets really up close and asks why she won’t tell him about it– he has already helped her many times, and she knows she can trust him– and he cups her cheek in his hand. Hurrr hurrr de hurrr. Because Bagani has this talent for popping up at [in]convenient times, he arrives just in time to see this and asks what Lumad is asking Amaya… does he like her? Lumad starts to answer, but Amaya cuts in and tells Bagani that yes, Lumad was telling her that he liked her. Oh no you don’t Amaya, you don’t you don’t you don’t…
Bayang admits tearfully that she was wrong– she thought Hilway was sick because she had seen the chief priestess lying down, so she didn’t wait to ask the chief priestess but took it upon herself to inform the rajah that she was sick. The rajah lays his sword along her neck and tells her that if she repeats this offense he will cut out her tongue. She begs for mercy, and he thrusts the sword into the floor. Whew. And she gets away with it, thank goodness.
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