Alec's charge proved effective. Though vastly outnumbered, the company had pinned their care on saving Klonodor. Aghast with fear, the Orcs that had beaten Klonodor into the ground had relinquished their position and retreated into the neighboring forest. "It's over," Klonodor's thoughts chimed again and again in a loop. He wanted to sleep. Forever. No more battles. No more wars over jewelry, no more darkness. No more. He had seen enough for one life time. "Curse it all. I'm done," he thought. He loved her and she would never know. "I know what I'm doing!" a disheartened Hinandrith hit back.