"Can you hear me, sir?" the strong female voice of Belatia, sergeant of the Hellguard and second-in-command to the expedition under the leadership of sir Morr, asked the bound man laying in the hospice bed while one of Blake's underlings treated him "If you can, then explain, the relic, the axe you possessed, where did you get it from, why did you come here with it only to attack us... or, as Geoffrey told me, the gate at least." she demanded to know.