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Carrying a pile of seafood and returning to the castle, Liszt did not immediately have the kitchen prepare it.
These seafood items indeed resembled those from his memory, but whether they were edible or poisonous still needed to be verified. The verification process was simple: Marcus took a few of the town's scarce hunters to set traps on the outskirts of Thorn Ridge and captured several wolves and wildcats, among other carnivorous animals.
The wolves and wildcats locked in cages were starving.
When the seafood was thrown in, the beasts voraciously gobbled it up. Then, the cooked seafood was given to another group of animals. After waiting for a day, by the second day, aside from two animals that died after eating a certain type of sea urchin, the other creatures were still lively, showing no signs of poisoning.
