The Priestesses visit some of the returned male Pirionite prisoners, their own people, and engage in sexual communion as acts of mercy, comradeship and worship. This is Section 1 of this piece (of 3 sections).
The male prisoners will be allowed to return to live in their city and the camps closed down, as a new market system is introduced by the occupiers. They have suffered sexual as well as physical and mental deprivation.
Dwarves involved in the invasion of Shalirion are ready to take their pillaged treasures of the conquest back home across the sea, but are forced to consider the value of profit over the value of their own lives and the lives of their prisoner/servants.