When the news that an Eastern Prince and Imperial Assassins could be hiding among them spreads, it causes no little panic. The fear they could be up to something dangerous is strong and the Crown takes action immediately, sending a wide amount of EG to capture the two and who is suspected to be in someway related to their potential plots.
Naturally the first to be taken are Hoseok, who is even recognised by the Riddle who met him the first time he came there, TiHao and Thomas who had been close to Hoseok and even hosted him in his home.

The three are taken to the EG headquarters and locked in two different cells in there, TiHao and Hoseok in one and Thomas in another, for his safety.

The news spreads fast and naturally other people involved with the two eastern are set to be taken into custody and interrogated to make sure they have no involvement.

Due to some matters, Mortian can't look into the matter just yet, so the eastern are left with the EGs until the king will be able to get to them.

Even if they are in two different cells, they are adjacent and open, just separated by a wall of bars, not a wall, so they can communicate and see each others.

Roman gets captured while doing his job as fake WonPil and taken to the prison too, in the same cell as Hoseok and TiHao.

In Heinmenhos, medicine is definitely not taken lightly, the market of medicines is strictly regulated by the law. Nobody can just go to a pharmacist to ask for a medicine without the recommendation of a doctor, that is, when the doctor himself is one of those who are too busy to make medicines themselves.

Painkillers are no different, actually they are especially regulated due to the fact that they need to be made with substances akin to drugs, most commonly opiates, and are not just dangerous but often claimed by people in the drug market to extract the opiate components and use them to create drugs.

That's pretty much why WonPil, after asking Timothy about where he could get some painkillers, found himself forced to ask to LaNi. He doesn't want to go to a northern doctor, nor any other, thus thinks that LaNi could help, for the right price.

Like every year at around this time, Heinmenhos celebrates a festival that is meant to celebrate the end of the 'mild seasons' and welcome the arrival of the harsh ones, Winter II and then Autumn II.

There are some celebrations in the streets too, but mostly inside of pubs due to the fact that the weather isn't so light to be outside when the darkness comes.
For the nobles, there are always parties organised specifically for them, and for the highest aristocracy of Heinmenhos, the party in the castle has always been a tradition that can't be broken, regardless the will of the King, unless he wants to bear his mother's complaints for the rest of his life.
As Timothy mentioned, Mortian specifically asked for WonPil to be invited and he is of course allowed to bring his partner with him, although... it's not so well seen that WonPil is dating an underaged. XD

Naturally all the eastern boys living in the castle are invited too, as well as all the Riddle, their closest friends and other nobles of the country.

As every day, he goes to pick up WonPil to bring him where he has to work with the refugees, again the difficult ones.
Before leaving, Timothy tells WonPil that there is going to be a party at Court for the end of Autumn I and that the King has officially invited him to participate, along with a closer circle of nobles of Heinmenhos who get invited every time.

Timothy leaves, hours later TiHao receives a worrying letter from WonPil, telling him to some to a specific address that is actually in Shadowmoor and not in an eastern area.
The address is that of a rather rich house, but dark and looking kind of gothic and decayed, but inhabited, nonetheless.

While all the parties and celebrations for Halloween were taking place, all over Heinmenhos, there were plenty of messes all around.
Hunters have to do extra job, during Autumn I, especially during Zimkeshalhor, which is the month with highest numbers of troubles, especially due to Zishians, making whole Deadlands troublesome too.

In the specific, a werewolf, the day before Halloween, managed to trough the Hunters' defences, causing panic not far from Malicedom.
The Hunters intervened as fast as possible, but some students were involved.
When James arrived there, shortly before the other ones sent with him, he basically found LaNi facing the beast and keeping it away from the other people nearby.

James and the others killed the werewolf in no time, but by then LaNi had clearly been injured multiple times, which is not a good sign, obviously.
James tries to take a look at his wounds and notices that they are already all healed, which is not promising either. Naturally everyone gives for granted that he got infected to, the matter got discussed with Mortian and all and in the end, they decided to send LaNi in the same place as where Devon is staying, to see how things develop.
But LaNi can't be infected and transformed into anything, it's just his usual self that caused the wounds to heal so fast. He avoided to say, though, not wanting to risk to end up studied or something like that.