Tarqinder and Mark awoke to find Kumthalatta and his two guards standing around them, each carrying a spear. "So you awake bwanas?" Kumthalatta asked. "My apologies, we must have overslept," Tarqinder replied. "Hurry, you have both lost valuable time, now prepare to fight, and by tonight you will have got our statue back; or else." And with that, Kumthalatta walked off, his guards following. He stopped and then turned around. "Well are you coming or will you have to be forced?" Kumthalatta asked angrily. "We're coming," Tarqinder uttered, with Mark following him along. "Like the TzHaar kingdom?"