Birb man! He's definitely naked and you can see everything in the first panel haha. Vikram is their fourth party member, possibly permanently, and he's an outcast in his camp - the next couple of pages shows the Winged caravan and the fact that they don't really like him because he made two of their warriors disappear recently. Not on purpose, but he's a powerful mage with little control (the theme of the story?? lol).
His brother is the leader of their group, so they can't exactly cast him out, but Vikram bringing these three weirdoes to fight off the local monsters arouses suspicion all around. Xerxes and them are glad to have a place to eat, Vikram thought he was doing a good thing by replacing those two warriors he evaporated, the rest of the caravan is on a rollercoaster of emotion and V's brother is conflicted.
I guess after this section, this would be the end of the first arc! It's ending in about... less than 20 pages. After that, having the general location of the sorcerer (spoiler!) they travel and seek help from the animal folk, whom they sympathize with and who see themselves in our main casts' curse (fellow outcasts).
Sorry this was so long, part of my absence was doing a lot of writing haha.
I left that line in the preview because it made me laugh, there's more dialogue on this page but I like to do the art before the dialogue placement.