When he went back into the dining hall, cole realized that all of the candles that had served to give the place a little bit of lighting was gone. But given the carnage his fight with Farida and her party had wrought, it was a miracle there was still a thing left standing. Either way the reason why he was back here was because the bounty he just completed had a massive red flag he couldn't ignore.
The exact wording on the bounty to have it completed was for Cole to destroy the item that was responsible for the summoning of the eldritch gaze eyeball thingies. However he had not come across an item of the sort, or perhaps he had seen it, and he had just been too preoccupied with the fight in front of him to pay attention to it.
