While Jerek stands sentry at the temple gates and the priests deal with the carnage in the sanctuary, Rathi finds himself sneaking deeper into the temple and to the room where he now knows Jerek’s friend Vindur is sheltered. The tatter-minded man is not upset by Rathi’s appearance at all, and is in fact all too happy to talk to the boy. From Vindur, Rathi at last learns that Jerek had once been an adventurer. He, Vindur, and five others — the closest band of friends there ever was, Vindur says — had wandered wherever they cared to go and taken on adventures wherever they could find them, doing a great many good deeds as they went.
Rathi finally asks what happened for Vindur to wind up so crippled, but the man’s thoughts can’t fix on the answer. He rambles something about the discovery of a “great truth”, but mostly just wonders where the rest of his friends are. Jerek, Vindur says, is searching for them, while Vindur waits “to get better”. Vindur misses the others greatly and knows Jerek does as well, and hopes the warknight will find the rest of their companions soon.