Shuk is going to check out the display case himself. He's doomed anyway. Everyone is doomed on this expedition. Rurek couldn't remember the way back.
"If only I hadn't decided to climb to the throne of Onyx..." the hopeless sorcerer suddenly said to himself. "Things would have turned out differently."
He destroyed his friends, he destroyed Kof's furies... yes, Rurek is not much of a leader. Or are the circumstances just too difficult?