 Luz instructs Marak to return across the desert to Oburan and persuade the Ila and other survivors to come to Luz's Refuge where they will be safe.The thirty years is already up and Marak has to hurry because the "ondat" have already begun their bombardment of the Lakht with asteroids from space.To stress the urgency of Marak's new mission, Luz feeds the "mad" with a new vision, that of the final "ondat" assault on the world, the hammerfall.