hours pass as the villagers add on to the defenses of the village, and eventually kiina joins in. a few glatorian, including gresh, strakk, and a few apprentices from tesara arrive at vulcanus. gelu asks how gresh got strakk to join, and gresh tells gelu that he lied, and told strakk that there was a large exsidian payment. gresh then explains to the other glatorian that he met up with an agori on the way back to vulcanus, and the agori told him that the skrall informed him that the bone hunters would be attacking from the east, from the treacherous iron canyon. raanu tells ackar that they must build walls along the canyon rim, but ackar refuses, and kiina agrees, saying that they should trick the hunters.