 Haplo and Alfred escape in Haplo's ship, and Haplo, driven by odd impulses, gives Alfred a chance to jump ship before he returns to the Nexus and his lord.Haplo's report to Xar is minimal, he tells his lord that Abarrach may be removed from his calculations since it is a dead world.The novel, however, contains a Xar’s written response in the margin of the report, where he calls Haplo a liar.