The man was here to take the strange red prisms that Kairos had on him. That was something he knew pretty confidently, while Nyoka and the others were simply quite confused.
With his current mood, Kairos recognized that one of his options was to just give up the artifacts and hand them over. It was normally an option he wouldn't even think to consider, but in his pursuit to change himself, this suddenly became quite clear.
He could probably end the conflict before it began if he just handed them over.
And it definitely was a tempting decision to make.
Yet, just as he was leaning towards making that decision, he woke up slightly. He came to realize that he wasn't a person that would just let go of things so easily, for better or for worse.
