So Alli and Aime are in the crypt, having gone "thump", and Panakeia, Elempí and "colleagues" have just heard said "thump", and are ready to investigate, which apparently blue-gloved investigation is apparently going to end in the .... uh ... 'end' of some red-shirt? Is that where we're going with this?
I'm trying to figure out Elempí too. He is of course the heart and soul of Anakron, that which lacks all the foolish ambition (though not foolishness)

..... and all he wants to do is get outta there! and back to Umbar and be a humble and too talkative professor again. I think. No, he dares to hope to hope that Panakeia will see through all the urbanity of Anakron to the squeamish heart of Elempí

. Well heck, I think I can build a post out of that. Or not.