Lone had only just returned to Ter amok's church where Ezegiel was waiting for news, Hecariël had gone ahead a few minutes.
However Lone would find the church completely deserted.

'This wasnt the plan' Lone thought to himself looking for signs of life, even Hecariël was nowhere to be found.

The air seemed to get thicker, by now Lone was sweating still checking the upper corridor of the church.. what was going on..
His feet started to sink into the wooden floor almost every step, there was something going on downstairs..

Back at the stairs it was clear, the church was on fire.. quickly Lone kicked in the back door and walked around the crumbling building to halt just in time.

Past the corner stood the mechanical figure Lone had seen before on the meadow. Up close he could now discern it to be feminine..even though bald, out of its chest arced two axe like blades.. it was a walking bear trap..
Then his observations were halted as Lone heard a voice he recogniced as the Hot skinned man..

"He would have overlooked this town, and this...local leader" "but i did not" he admitted. "He is so careless, ..while useful still"

'they must be talking about Ezegiel" knew lone.. 'they killed him..?"

"w.h.a.t a.b.o.u.t t.h.e. ...f.r.i.e.n.d." commented the mechanical figure stuttering.

For a moment lone held his breath fearing that hecariël..had...

"Behi, do not concern yourself with him anymore, he will too be useful soon enough" The hotskin replied whilst walking off..

'What friend' Lone pondered 'The monk?" ..
There was no trace of Hecariël anywhere..gladly,..and in the church ..no.. not possible either, he had looked everywhere..
'The hotskin has not harmed her.." .."Perhaps she escaped before i got here, perhaps she traveled to her kin in the north"

And thus Lone hurried himself out of Ter amok.
Looking back from its edges more and more signs of fire rose into the sky, he had gotten out just in time.
Only the desert of Owls before him, but the times had changed it into a swamp.. and he had to find a sign of life in it.. ..Hecariëls.