The roses do start to worsen again, but it's not too bad - they'll be living off the effects of the dragon meat they got from the Levon villagers. However, the Council will inform him that they spoke to Grandma about what she was putting in the potion, and it turns out that the reason some of the roses are missing isn't just because they've been wandering, but also because Grandma was making to potion mostly out of other roses, and thereby feeding their cannibalism habit.

They therefore ask that Roy not use that potion again (on pain of a fine or more serious punishment if he continues beyond that), and that in the future if he's going to get himself involved in magic, he ask a little more about the details.