along the way, the group runs into a caravan with a broken wheel. the agori in the caravan are somewhat biased against gelu, as a glatorian of the ice tribe offered to help them earlier in exchange for half of their goods, due to the path ahead being filled with vorox. gresh offers to repair their wheel and escort them for free, much to objections of metus. after the caravan is fixed, gresh says that they should keep traveling despite it being nighttime, reasoning that they have a better chance of surviving a vorox attack if they are moving rather than if they make camp. as they travel through the desert, they notice a vorox about to attack them, and gelu defeats it with a thornax. a multitude of vorox then begin to attack the two glatorian, who are able to fend most of them off. when the vorox become too much to handle, gelu and gresh decide to toss two pieces of new armor from the caravan in opposite directions, resulting in the vorox fighting each other for the cargo, and the group is able to make it out of the pass safely. as they near vulcanus, gelu compliments gresh on his fighting.