The caravan remained stationary for more than a week. They had to wait for the sole surviving Nogrus Saurian to recover enough strength to pull the caravan again.
Nao Dou and the three other mind practitioners recovered first. They were shocked to see Yeresdyx when they woke up. As upperworlders, they had never met a Hyanid, and the concept of flesh-altering was alien to them. They were strapped to the bed, and their minds were numbed with drugs. They couldn't do anything even if they wanted to. Yeresdyx told Amon when they woke up. He came to explain. They left the prison box after five days of treatment.
They were devastated to find so few of them survived. Amon told them where their dead comrades were buried.
"That's why we elders told you all that the outside world is dangerous! Do you see that now?" Nao Dou exclaimed. "That's why we forbade you from leaving the village! See what happened when we left? This world outside is not for us! We are not welcome here!"
