It was a dilemma that didn't seem to have an obvious answer. However… Zarek's way of thinking about things had always been different from others. He had picked up on clues that most would overlook, but some would be missed only because they were so obvious that one might not even think to second guess it.
For example…
What the hell was this place in the first place?
On the surface, it seemed to be like the system's backyard or something. That made sense. After all, he had gotten here by going through a portal opened up by the Hub. Wasn't it obvious that that was what this place was, then?
But if this was just a normal place the system spawned Lurkers from, then where were the other Lurkers? And if this was the jurisdiction of the system, wouldn't that Compass have just been sending him to die?
And then there was the most obvious thing of all.
Why would his Hero Spirit be with the system in the first place?
