in their next test, the toa inika are trapped and told they must sacrifice one of their own to continue. with his last death still on his mind, jaller is distracted long enough for matoro to volunteer himself, on the grounds that he as a translator has less to offer their mission than the others and becomes another foreshadow to the barrakki story. this sacrifice is accepted and matoro is disintegrated - only to be re-formed moments later, as the willingness to die for the cause was what was important, not the death itself.