Troops from Luzianna and Floria arrive to reinforce the Inglessa Militia. The Moonrace seizes land and crops from Inglessan farmers, while tensions between Moonrace civilians and Dianna Counter soldiers emerge as rations run low. Loran, Sochie, Keith, and Fran help a Moonrace family scavenge crops and livestock from abandoned farms. Poe mistakes this for a Militia scheme and attacks, but Harry intervenes. Distraught by the bickering between the people of Earth and the Moon, Loran publicly announces he is a member of the Moonrace, which upsets Sochie.