This chapter opens with a "bloody swoosh" and a "boom boom" . It's the same sound you heard when you ran away from your men. It sounds like the wind is blowing in your face, but it's not the wind that's blowing in the face of your enemies. It is the wind blowing in front of you. The narrator tells us that this is the same wind that blew at the end of the previous chapter. This time, the wind blows in the opposite direction. It doesn't sound like it is blowing at all. This is because the "elements" of nature are out of balance, and the humans are using them to their advantage. Anasta comes in and tells brutus that everything is going according to plan. The humans have been using the "quicksand claws" to bait the savages. The savages are ignorant of the situation, and they're going to kill each other for scraps of meat. They need to alert the humans to the situation so that they can wake up the savage