Damian and Sam split up. Using the darkness of the night, they crept inside the dark huts one by one, trying to find anything with color. When even after searching each and every empty hut they could and found nothing, they reunited and walked toward the largest hut—the house where the chief was supposed to live.
The village meeting had long since ended, with most of the people returning back to their huts. Some stayed awake, though, guarding the village entrance and patrolling around the wooden log walls of the village.
Damian had heard many of them talking about the strange boy arriving from nowhere and breaking their sacred relic, and then their chief suddenly disappearing—most believed it was connected. They believed somehow Damian had kidnapped their chief. The mention of Sam was very little among the chatter though, as if no one wanted to acknowledge that a person had been trapped inside their sacred relic for so long and had just escaped together with the village intruder.
