Once the tree topples onto them, Ulrich and Georg are held captive close to one another beneath the imprisoning branches. This forces them to confront their existential conditions and gives them time to ponder those thoughts seriously.
After having suffered some injuries, the two foes review their reasons for having come out on this night. Under the circumstances, their animosity to each other seems rather trivial.
In the pain and languor that Ulrich himself was feeling, the old fierce hatred seemed to be dying down.
Further, he tells his old foe that he has come to the conclusion that they have been foolish because there are "better things in life than getting the better of a boundary dispute." He asks Georg to be his friend. Georg Znaeym is quiet for some time, but eventually says,
what peace there would be among the forester folk if we ended our feud tonight. And if we choose to make peace among our people, there is no other to interfere, no interlopers from outside... You would come and keep the Sylvester night beneath my roof.
Unfortunately, there are "interlopers from outside" who interfere in Georg's and Ulrich's plans for amelioration: wolves are heard "making all the speed they can" to reach the two men imprisoned in the disputed forest, men who chatter in "the idiotic manner" known only to those who are faced with "hideous fear."
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