Chiaroscuro awakens in the village of the Rik'-worshipping Kavis, and is treated like a great prophet and hero. He gets the help of the Kavis to go out in search of Kal, his Skreek companion who abandoned him after the battle with the "Black Dread". They find Kal, who is caught in the web of a great insectoid monster. A battle follows, in which the lives of two of the Kavis are claimed, but Kal is rescued, and the survivors flee back to the village.