Von Blitz and Rasula mean to destroy all of us.

We are to disappear from the face of the earth.

When our friends come to look for us, we will have died from the plague and our bodies will have been burned, as they always are in Japat.

There will be no one left to deny the story.

All outsiders are to be destroyed--even the Persian and Turkish women, who hate their liege lords too well.