The battle continues, and the adventurers prevail against the two berzerkers. They expected Anamith to emerge from the passage, as they were pretty sure she was in the pit room with the berzerkers, but all is quiet. They check the berzerkers' bodies, but neither of them carries anything of value, except their weapons. Hooflepoof and Black Barry each take a greataxe.

Karat ventures stealthily into the passage to see what she can discover. She doesn't hear anything coming from the cavern; it is suspiciously quiet in there. She creeps further down the passage, until she can just see into the cavern at the other end, and she sees a foot. Not a human foot, a green clawed foot, and it is not moving, just standing in one spot near to the wall. She doesn't dare lean out further to see more, lest she be noticed. She creeps very quietly back to her friends and tells them what she saw. They're pretty sure it is Anamith, but they have no idea what she is doing.

Just then, they hear footsteps coming down the passage from the north, and they quickly ready their weapons and position themselves on either side of the doorway in preparation to be ambushed, or else to ambush. Presently, a cultist and two kobolds walk into the cavern, very nonchalantly, without their weapons even drawn. The adventurers jump out, and the cultist is so surprised that he completely faints. The adventurers quickly kill the fainted cultist and one of the kobolds, while the other kobold escapes for the moment and runs into the west corner, where the passage comes down from above. "What are you doing?" the kobold asks, apparently confused by their cultist uniforms and not processing that they might not be legitimate cultists. They don't even bother to answer, killing the kobold on the spot.

Emboldened, or perhaps just tired of the suspense, the adventurers decide to storm into the pit room and challenge Anamith directly. Hooflepoof goes first, barging down the passage and into the cavern, where he is surprised to see Anamith sitting on the floor, head in her hands, not even looking up. The other adventurers barge out of the passage onto the ledge, and see the same.

Karat speaks up: "What happened?"

Anamith jumps a little, apparently unaware of their presence until Karat spoke. "I thought you would know," he says.

"Um... no," says Karat. "Can we help?"

"Not unless you can repair dragon eggs."

"What happened to the eggs?"

"This wasn't your plan all along, saboteurs?"

"No, we don't know what you're talking about."

Anamith doesn't believe her, and angrily lashes out with his Lightning Breath. Hooflepoof and Karat jump back and it singes them only slightly, while Elbolin and Black Barry take pretty severe burns.