just as the necrodelic began to wonder whether to employ a strategy which would involve him continually leaping from one side of the lake to the other in pursuit of the wounds he had wrought , or to direct his attack from atop the janus kraken 's joined skulls on both sides at once , he saw the oneirophage slithering along the parapets across from him , the ones he had originally traversed , where the soul cleaver remained sheathed .