Slow it down. Have Korlash be doing his usual, bum rushing into things without a lot of thought. Then have that fail him, hard. Make him panic, make him fear... and then make him plan.
Perhaps I'll have the anonymous knight wonder why Korlash is so panicked and desperate to get into the forest. Maybe he opens up about Jin, because this random stranger will probably die off anyway, so who is he going to tell?
...maybe the enemy begins to see each other as fellow creatures of spirit and life, not just faceless beings.