The stage is set, the curtains are drawn, the lights dim...final act.
Ok, I\'m sure you\'ve figured out that the women are under the same control as the Fenkies were. The glass spheres contain the \'flesh\' that Lyistra wrote about earlier. The cloaked figure may or may not be LeLekkard. Also, the women where never killed. Their deaths were faked, they were enslaved by magic, and they will kill for their new master, though not of their own choice.