he did not want to see the horrors of the wastelands , the traps set out for him by the minions of doomba , but if every step took him closer to the truths of the tigoral , the tiger of light , his mother kala , or even the knights of arria with their swords , perhaps he could stand the rest of the trip , and the falls that they might have to take along the way , especially ifthey were together .