Outside Evelyn's room...
Scott decides to comply wordlessly with the lady's words, and steps inside her room. It's a rather neat place, with a nicely made bed and a solitary chair. Scott could possibly appreciate it more under less dangerous circumstances, of course, but he supposes a person who's neat enough in their habits would be the one you let poke around your brain.
Evelyn seats him without a word, then starts to quickly work at his brain, taking out small pieces of it along with any skull shards that may have been in there. Soon enough a good chunk of Scott's brain is removed and placed on a nearby plate - Scott isn't sure he likes the implications of that. After a while, she is done, and Scott's skull feels quite a bit lighter.
"And that is that, I suppose. Very little else I can do. Very interesting to cut up a brain, though. I have never done that before. I wonder if your mental functions will return in time. No better chance to find out. Stay here."
Now it all falls into place. That's why Scott can't see anything anymore.
On the deck of the Second Shank...
Sigmund, hoping to find Art, goes hunting around the ship. However, he (she?) is nowhere to be seen. Definitely not in the cargo hold, at least. Or the den, kitchen or corridors.
In Helsvar's village...
Niklas agrees with the spruce man's proposal, and together they go forth and seek the Chosen Rodent. They find no such thing, it has to be said. Niklas can't smell hide nor tail of any squirrel nearby - even the Great Old One seems to have disappeared someplace.
"How very suspicious this is. I was told the Chosen Rodent was here. Had a vision and everything."
At the site of Niklas' melting...
Morton, after Kevin rolls off him and plummets to the cobbled ground with an embarrassing thwack, catches the slowly rolling ball of Niklas in his pot. The parts of the pot that touch the sphere soon begin to glow red, then white. And the heat the whole thing radiates is quite intimidating.
A few moments later, he isn't quite sure if the pot is melting or not - its shape has changed a little, but he doesn't know it won't just fall apart if he lifts it. That is, if he can lift it at all and his arms won't combust upon contact with the thing.