The Lashunta  is Susreth Susaro,a young SD Force  recruit and medic. He was part of the now-missing Second Battalion squad but defected as they got closer to the mountains. Susreth had always been more empathic than most other lashuntas, and as Xelonan began to amplify the psychic emanations within the temple of Hylax to protect himself, they began to affect Susreth, even at this distance.




The recruit started seeing psychic projections of Swarm enemies all around him and fled. The others wrote him off as a deserter and continued on to Lynmari.




The Fifth Battalion's Midnight Squad was able to calm him down & he ran off when they got to Lynmari.