"So you knew they'd be here! What else do you know?" Finn asked it rather like a threatening command.

"You already know too much," said Arrakis. "If this information gets out, you and your loved ones, and everyone else will face their fate sooner than you could say your goodbyes."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Lena demanded clarification.

"You have no idea who looms out there. You have to keep this to yourself, and never return! Those people need to stay here."

Finn comprehended that Arrakis knew not as much as they thought at first.

"The bunker is empty," Finn revealed with mixed feelings. 

He felt superior for knowing more than the man on the ground. He was blithe but thoroughly disappointed withal. Finn blamed Arrakis to have come to another dead end.

"It's empty?" Arrakis repeated, his eyes spread by shock. "No."

"Yes," said Lena.

"No! You loathsome, foul liars!"

"Go, see for yourself," Lena said to convince him of the truth.

"Yeah, want me to throw you down the hole?" Finn offered and attempted to present a vicious smile but his heavy heart allowed it not. 

The people were gone, and as much as Arrakis seemed to hate it, Finn hated it more. Or so he thought.

"Are they really not there?" cried Arrakis. "All are gone?"

"Yes. And regarding your surprised face, I take it you don't know where they have gone to?"

Arrakis shook his head and let it fall rearward, his arms expanded left and right, his good leg set to an angle and the other lying lifelessly flat.

"We're all doomed," Arrakis whispered to the moon.

"I don't buy it," Finn said to Lena. "This is just an act. He knows very well where they have gone."

Arrakis disregarded their suspicion. He simply looked away, minding himself, but to Finn, it was all the more reason for an attack.

"Tell me where they are. What have you done to them?" 

Finn pressed Arrakis against the frozen ground, sat upon his chest, and pulled his own fist back beyond his left ear to gather momentum. But Arrakis gave no answer and Finn's rock-shaped hand stood still in the air. Then he gripped him by the chest and nearly ripped his jacket. 

"Say something! Make up a lie, I dare you, I will know!" Finn's free hand grew firmly around Arrakis' throat, and though he sank into tenderness, Arrakis did not fight for himself.

Lena wished for Finn to stop.

"Tell me! Or I swear I'll torture you!"

"I don't know where they went!"

"Then tell me what you do know!"

"Nothing! I know nothing."

"Liar! You said we're all doomed! Why?"

"It was a figure of speech," said Arrakis and waited for Finn to decide whether it was believable.

"What happened to A154?" Finn asked.

"I don't know."

"Who brought the passengers here?"

"I don't know!"

"Do you know why they were brought here?"

"I don't!"

"Liar! You must know something! How did you know the bunker's location?"

"I was told."

"By whom?"

Arrakis' lips were sealed, and Finn's knuckles tempted. Unsettled, Lena kept her distance. She had never seen this nature of Finn, but she did not find the courage to utter her discomfort.

"Why did you want to prevent us from finding the bunker?" Finn had already moved on to the next question, for he had many more to ask. "What interest are they to you?"

"All I know is that they were safe here. And now that they are gone, I am as clueless as you. Now get off of me!"

"Safe from what?" asked Finn and remained on top.

"Take the hint, prick! I don't know!"

"Alright," said Finn and loosened his hands, "here is what's going to happen. You either tell me what you know, right now, or I'll snap your uncrippled leg into two pieces."

Never before had Finn seen Arrakis even slightly scared, but when he spoke his terms, Arrakis jolted him off and crawled the opposing direction, only to catch his breath a few feet away.

"Finn, that's enough!" Lena said. "Please calm down."

"He is clearly hiding something!"

Arrakis cursed to himself as Finn and Lena argued over their proceeding.

"You can't threaten to torture him!" Lena held and pulled both Finn's arms. "Do you admire Arrakis' personality?"

"Of course not! I detest it!"

"Then stop behaving like him."

"I am nothing like him. I do not adopt his configuration of dealing with unpleasant matters. I'm simply using his own techniques to teach him a lesson about dishonesty."

"You are fighting fire with fire, and if you can't see that, you're deluded."

"Seriously? Remember what he's done to you."

"I could never forget," she said, "but right now I am more scared of you than I am of him. So will you, for the love of the goddess, subdue your anger?"

Finn walked up to Arrakis laying face down in a field of pain.

"Don't do this, Finn! Please stop," cried Lena. "Walk the other way, find it in your heart to let this go. If you can't do it for me, do it for Nitha!"

"I am doing it for Nitha."

Uninhibited tears came streaming down Lena's face as she turned her back to them and straddled Chione. 

"I will leave you both!" she shouted at the second Finn grabbed Arrakis' leg. He stopped at that and focused on Lena.

"We'll die," he said.

"That grave you dug yourself. Now you can either die here together or repress your dislike toward each other. It's your call."

"Or we just leave him," suggested Finn in vain.

"I'm not a murderer."

"And what are you if you leave us both?" Arrakis debated but was neglected.

"You wouldn't leave me here," said Finn, and Arrakis started laughing.

"Don't make the mistake to underestimate her. When I said to her that she wouldn't dare to shoot me, she shot. Luckily she missed. But she did shoot."

"Luck had nothing to do with it." Lena masked her insecurity by the earnestness of her expression. "Now choose. Will you survive as civilized people or die like ruthless animals?"

"If precious Phineas can't survive a little chill, that's on you. I made it here by myself and I can go back by myself."

"We know you had help from Pacu," she rolled her eyes and sighed. "Guys, please. You'd be walking for days on end, just let me take you, and in a couple of hours you can go back to hating each other."

Finn and Arrakis watched each other's expressions change. While Finn peered with wrath, Arrakis merely shrugged and smiled. He walked past Finn and up to Lena, having made his decision.

"Stay away from her," said Finn. He pulled Arrakis' arm but was not fought.

In a hurry, Lena pushed herself between the grappling men and ended the brawl by dragging Finn away to talk in private. 

Having gained just enough distance to be unheard by Arrakis, she asked Finn what had gotten into him.

"Why are you suddenly so interested in helping that bastard?" asked Finn, instead of answering her question.

"I'm not."

"That guy is crazy," Finn said, turning his head slightly to see if Arrakis was still standing next to Chione. Relieved, he continued talking, "Why would we help him? After everything we've been through because of him, you forgive him? Just like that?"

"I haven't forgiven him."

"Then what? If he behaves well, you'll throw him a treat? If you think he's worth saving, you think he's a good guy? Is that it?"

"Stop arguing with me!" Lena rested both of her fists on her forehead and sought to say more, but Finn was quicker.

"You can't even deny it."

"I'm confused," Lena said with the hope it could give her more time to think.

"Me too." 

Finn looked down and shook his head. His arms rested on his hips as his soft voice revealed that he had recovered his inner peace. 

"I won't argue your decision, but tell me why you want to help this guy. Make me understand. Please."

"Because—" Lena's eyes caught a brief view of Arrakis and returned to Finn. She thought that they mirrored each other, and the more she agreed with that idea of her own, the heavier her heart sank. "I want to help him because he wouldn't help us."

Finn tilted his head. He looked rather confused by her answer.

"I know he's a disgraceful and ruthless man, I know that. Alright? His personality is hideous and he's the type of guy that would gladly take the lives of others if he saw a benefit. But if I refuse to help him, if I leave him behind, knowing he will die, then I am nothing better than him. I would become everything I disgust in a person, and the thought itself scares the hell out of me."

Finn turned the other way but did not go. He stood still, feeling as if Arrakis had punched his stomach again. But harder than ever before.

"You are scared of me," he said under his breath, his eyes fixed to the mountain's perfect white cover. "You think I'm disgraceful."

"That's not what I said."

"You didn't have to. I heard it loud and clear, even if it was unspoken."