 With the yacht tied up in probate, Heris's options are limited.They are further limited when the King summons Heris to an audience, and quite firmly insists that she and her crew steal the "Sweet Delight", and while avoiding arrest by the Fleet, discovery of their identity and also any attacks by the Benignity and their agents, take the stupid prince to the Guerini Republic to seek an antidote to the poison.Heris has little choice but to agree, and steals the yacht and busts out of the Rockhouse system at high speed.