In the morning, the train again makes its way West. Somewhere near Driscoll, the train is ambushed by half a dozen Lakota Warriors on horseback. In the ambush the train is derailed by explosives on the tracks. The explosion awakens U.S. Marshal Raylan Marston who was traveling in the second car. Upon awakening, Raylan witnesses the family from the day prior brutally attacked and murdered by the Lakota Warriors. In the time it takes Raylan to gather his wits and exit the train, the fight is over. Chow and Todd shot and killed at least three of the warriors while Elder Jedidiah magically put two warriors to sleep. The remaining Lakota Warriors fled south on horseback. While watching them flee the party sees a massive storm gathering to the south, green streaks of lightning lining its thunderhead. * The party notices that these Lakota are indeed twisted and darkened by unknown forces, similar to the legend told back at the saloon. In spite of this, they try and question them but are unsuccessful in gathering any useful information. The party decides to take their horses and get moving but before they could leave, they hear the sound of a crying baby tucked into the dead woman’s arms inside the train car. They gather up the baby and they then decide to backtrack to the much closer town of Steele to hopefully leave the child in the care of the locals.

Following the tracks, the party sneaks past a grotesquely mutated bear sniffing around the tracks and they safely arrive at an abandoned farmhouse outside of the town of Steele. As they arrive the storm has caught up with them, and rain begins to pour as darkness falls.

The sounds of the storm dominate the night as the party searches the farmhouse for anything useful. Aside from furnishings and mostly spoiled provisions, they find little of value. As Jedidiah attempts to feed the baby, he notices that when it opens its mouth, the sounds of battle can be heard as plain as day. Over the next few minutes the sound intensifies and when they attempt to use their magic to learn the nature of this child it begins to grow restless in its sleep. Discovering that this child is an entity of evil Jedidiah attempts to purify it and when he discovers that he cannot, he attempts to destroy this nexus of evil with a blade. It awakens. And when it does it begins to transform into a massive grotesque aberration with eight 30ft long legs bursting through the farmhouse and exposing the party to the storm. Lighting and rain and hail crashes around them as they begin to fight with whatever this monster is. They quickly realize that in order to defeat it they must first immobilize it so they start to attack its legs, one by one. When the monster loses its footing and crashes to the ground the party is unable to finish it off completely before it dematerializes and disappears like a slick black oil seeping into the ground.

The party finds that in the fight the horses have become crazed and in their attempts to gather them one of the horses is struck by lightning and killed. The party then seeks shelter in the nearby abandoned post office. The storm rages through the night and the party is unable to find much of any sleep.