They have had no warning, hence does Yolara still think us on the way to the temple.
This is the gateway of the Portal--and the gateway is closed by the Shadow.

Once I commanded here and I know its laws.

This must I do--by craft persuade Serku, the keeper of the gateway, to lift the Shadow; or raise it myself.

And that will be hard and it may well be that in the struggle life will be stripped of us all.

Yet is it better to die fighting than to dance with the Shining One!" He swept the shell around the pier.