There's always a little bit of tension when the protagonist meets his or her nemesis, and chapter 3 delivers. Laddin meets Malik for the first time and tensions are high. My commentary goes into detail about what I was going for with this relationship and how I didn't want to focus so much on the why the bad guy is the way that he is, but rather, I wanted to focus on why Laddin is the way the he is, and what that means in the context of Malik.