After the men battle, Clint finds Dharma Kold... leaving Edward to face his old nemesis: the black unicorn Cerberus. Finally, Clint discovers the true nature of Kold's desires on the town of Solace.

Sending Teddy off, Clint and Edward wait for Kold and Stone's arrival at the High Rock. After learning of a gambit, they return hurriedly to town to face Stone's band of men head-on.

Edward's magic protection allows the three-man group to eavesdrop on the bandits at the stew hole, where Clint learns the identity of the dark rider. Afterward, Clint explains the terrible nature of the unicorn of a different color.

Teddy, the town's orphan, shoves his way into Clint and Edward's defunct posse as the water reader reports a disturbing new development about a rider who travels with Hassle Stone. Together, the posse rides out to find a party of ominous men palavering by a stew hole in the Sands.

Clint heads off to rally his unicorn partner, Edward, and together they head off to round up a posse to face Hassle Stone. Back at the Otel, Mai argues to keep Clint from his dangerous duty.

Clint and Mai's wedding in the Sprawl town of Solace is disrupted when the water reader sees the return of the town's old nemesis and predicts coming doom.