What is the literary function of the enemies’ hostility at the end of verse 24?

Imruʾ al-Qays: A Guarded Tent, the Pleiades, Objection, and Dunes (Verses 23–29)

• To portray the enemies as welcoming and peaceable
• Heightening the danger and the narrator’s daring
• To report that the poet retreated out of fear
• To report that an actual killing occurred