Raest has driven two of the black dragons away from the battlefield, while two others still circle around in the sky. He has Silanah on the run and he knows that she is injured and hurting. Raest exults in the power that he has and the destruction he has wrought. As he tracks Silanah, he destroys a stone guardhouse containing creatures taller than Imass (presumably humans) so that they won't be a distraction, then a man and his horse who happen to be riding close, just because he is irritated by their presence. By now, Raest's body is completely shredded to pieces but he is surrounded and held together by his Omtose Phellack sorcery. He expects Silanah to ambush him again beyond the next hill's summit but finds her regarding him from some distance, steadily, without the presence of her War