Although he makes some attempt to downplay his role in procedures, citing the help of the ancestors and the outsiders that they bought, Kraken is secretly delighted by all the adulation and is soon lapping up the attention.
He manages to bring himself to the meeting with the elders, however, where his normally flippant demeanour changes to a serious one.
"These are the most dangerous of our enemies, eh?" he says. "The old captain used to say dead men tell no tales, but I don't rightly know what the old larrikin meant by that. I do know that dead men don't summon any more demons. Reckon these toerags have either got a ship up there that they're heading for, or a bolt-hole of some kind, maybe with more stone bones and crystals if we ain't lucky. I say we finish the job outright and go after them."