All is fairly quiet, until shortly before he plans to leave. About a few hours before his planned departure, a soldier in Barid's uniform delivers a message, letting Draiss know that, in a nearby plane, there's a man who looks and acts an awful lot like him, claiming to be him, attempting to take command of a garrison of troops, to 'deal with a Beyonder threat', that the sensors cannot identify, nor do the scouting patrols report anything in the area.