As mentioned above, there's an unlit torch holding open a door that Chiron could look for.acodispo wrote:Brother Walfried waves to the departing scouting party. He then busies himself. He places an unlit torch over the threshold of the opened door beyond the longship, and pulls the door to, till it's only just held open by the width of the torch. There he stations himself, listening for noise from beyond the portal.
There are three Boggsmen corpses in the boat room and it seems reasonable to assume one of them, if not all of them, was carrying torches. Whenever the party split up, one time into three separate groups, a Boggsman was a torchbearer.