After an hour or two the trail and the coast make another turn, to the south again. At this point another trail heads dead east, off into the heart of the Bright Desert. Malbar guides you south.
Soon after noon, you notice that the trail is finally bearing away from Woolly Bay...as the coast edges south-southwest and the trail edges south-southeast.
Late in the afternoon the trail forks: Malbar leads you down the left branch, to the south-southeast. Two hours later, as the sun is setting, he stops you, and bids that you make camp near a tumbledown pile of boulders.
"I remember them," he tells you, as he takes out his map and examines it. "The city is dead east of here. We should be there by this time tomorrow."
Again, the night is quiet, though the temperature plunges to below freezing.