The house swarmed by undead and his own welfare at stake, the free man — ironically fettered — is keen to help on this matter and takes the quartz stone greedily. He requires some help at first to learn how to manhandle the device, but seems to have been taught by heart a certain name to seek — Arne Olsen.

In petty privacy no better than the corner of the room, he swaps words with his master, and returns to ask Lee Chang on Anurr's behalf: was the man Lee Chang at the jailhouse, once? Anurr asks for Lee Chang's likeness. Can the woods' man describe him? Did he look the same then, as he does now?