searches for her, Gabrielle is told by her captor Manus that she has been chosen to undergo a series of challenges to determine whether she is a bride worthy of the god Morpheus.
Meanwhile, Xena receives information from an unlikely source, a blind man named Elkton (Desmond Kelly), for whom she earlier performed an act of kindness. He reveals himself as a former Mystic priest who was blinded and cast out of the order by Manus. Elkton explains that Gabrielle will be forced into killing in order to survive the challenges. However, once she loses her innocence, she
