We set out shortly after the back and forth had with Casimir's right hand. As I expected, Leonis and his cronies did very little in terms of not giving me a hard time throughout the journey. Fortunately, it was to be expected and so I did my best to ignore him and the few of his useless followers. We were almost at the spot where we met the Silawi that day. I kept my eyes, ears, and power frequency high. Not only because I had a bad feeling about the area that we were entering, though. I had to make sure that I was safe around the Demoi that was supposed to have my back. We'd been out two days on foot, deciding that it would be more inconspicuous to not have large beautiful, red-eyed beasts galloping through a potentially hostile area. Besides, both Casimir and I thought it best that we

