If there was one bright side to Arkhah's failure, it was that he had still been concealing himself, and so Thraxius would not be able to gloat over the mishap. Arkhah would remember the man's scent, though - there was not time to pursue him now, but Arkhah knew the lower decks well through his duties as Twistcatcher, and he would find the man eventually - for what purpose, no one had bothered to tell him, but he had obviously been an enemy of some kind.