Ganoes Paran travels towards the newly awakened sea in Raraku, thinking on Poliel's game, believeing that the scheme had possibly become too tangled for a single mind to comprehend. He thinks back to his meeting with Kruppe in the Finnest House in Darujhistan where he'd first been brought news about the disasters in Seven Cities. A nearby hill explodes and Paran senses Omtose Phellack. Coming closer, he sees a broken body of a T'lan Imass flung outside a barrow. A Jaghut woman climbs out, telling him that one of her ritual has been shattered and she needed to repair it.