Ah, so I see you've decided to continue. Warning: Shorter chapter than last time, but still rather long.

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A horse plodded along, his rider slouched over and seemingly not awake. But in reality he was wide awake and listening keenly. Then he heard a noise, a rustle in a bush, and then someone jumped out.

Will slid down from his saddle, and drew his saxe knife. Then the attacker rushed on. Will heard the thump thump of the person approaching. Then the person grunted and Will heard a slight swishing and threw his saxe knife up to parry it. Then he swung at the person attacking. It caught him on the arm. The attacker fell back for a moment, then continued, striking Will softly on the head.

"Well done, Will" Horace said warmly. "You even managed to land a blow on my arm!"

"Thanks Horace. And maybe next time hit a little softer? I kind of need my head." Will said jokingly.

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Halt and Will had been heading to Turk's fief for some time now, and when they had passed Castle Araluen. There, they chanced upon Horace, who was hunting and of course Horace wanted to tag along.

"Plus I can provide invaluable information for him." Horace had said.

"And what, pray tell, may that be?" Halt put on.

"I can help him with enemies who are fighting with the sword." Horace said, grinning.

"I'm right here you know. You don't have to talk as if I'm not here." Will put in.

"Of course Will." Halt said sweetly. Then he continued. "That would be good for him, training him to go up against the sword." Will just shook his head and smiled.

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Halt knocked on Turk's cabin, his fist thumping on the door. Then it opened. Later on, Halt described to Will what Turk looked like.

"Who's there?" Turk asked.

"Halt, Will, and Horace." Halt answered.

"Halt, see good to hear you! And Will and Horace. The three legendaries." Turk chuckled.

"I got blinded. We were hoping you could help us out." Will said. The days were long past when he would say it awkwardly.

"Oh. Well, I will be able to help you." Turk said, unable to keep the surprise out of his voice. "Come on in."

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The next day, Turk showed Will to a clearing. He made sure that they were alone; he didn't want to blow his secret.

"Ok Will, do you know what echolocation is?" Turk asked.

"Echo-what?"

"Echolocation. It's what bats use to get around at night. I've been blind ever since I was born, so I had plenty of time to figure it out." Turk explained.

"So, because it's like the bats' night for us all the time, we can use it to help us see?" Will inferred.

"Exactly. What you do, is click your tongue like this." He said, demonstrating. "But it needs to be a super high pitched sound. Only dogs and we can hear it."

"Why can't other people hear it?" Will asked.

"Because the frequency is so high. The reason we can hear it is because our ears are so much stronger than normal humans." Turk explained.

"Oh." Will replied. He had noticed that recently, he had been able to hear Halt when he had been stalking a deer, and when he told Horace this, he said he didn't know what Will was talking about.

"And because our ears can hear those higher frequencies, we can use the sound waves to help us see. The sound waves we make bounce off of other objects and send tiny sound waves back to us. That's how I was able to lead us here." he said. "Try it out."

Over the next few weeks, Will practiced his echolocation until he could lead the way in the trees. Halt and Horace noticed the change in how Will walked from place to place and merely shook their heads in wonder.

"He's magic." Horace said, as Will dodged a chair.

"No, I can imagine there is some sort of logic behind this." Halt replied.

Finally, Horace got Will alone and asked.

"It's called echolocation. It's very complicated, and even I don't understand it fully, but it's working so I don't question it much." He explained. "And Halt," he added louder "I know you're here." Halt merely stepped out of hiding and Horace's eyes nearly popped out of his head.

"How…?" he began.

Will grinned slyly. "You'll never know"

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There was a deep thrum, then a thunk as the arrow was driven home.

"You have no idea how good that feels." Will said. Will had gotten so good at using his echolocation that Halt decided to bring archery back into Will's life.

"You've probably lost most of your archery skills in the time that we've been here, so you'll need to-" Halt began.

"Practice, practice, practice." Will interrupted.

"You seriously should learn not to interrupt your betters." Halt said, straight faced. Will shrugged.

Will turned to shoot again and Halt interrupted.

"You're holding it wrong." Halt nagged.

"What was that about not interrupting?" he muttered. Then he continued. "Turk showed me that if I hold it this way, it won't mess with my accuracy, but it will help me to see the distance better." he said, demonstrating. Halt grunted something, but Will shrugged it off.

Will turned back to shoot again, and 4 arrows were in the air before the first one struck the target. Each arrow struck no more than a few inches from each other.

"That was the best you could do?" Halt grunted.

"I'd like to see you do better." said Will, only realizing just how much he wanted to after he said it.

Halt unslung his longbow and nocked an arrow. Four arrows were in the air before the first one struck, as it had been with Will. They all struck the target. Each one was a few inches away except for one. That one arrow had struck another arrow and pierced through it. Will sat, open mouthed. Halt smiled wolfishly, and said "Beat that."

Will shut his mouth then nocked an arrow, and sent four on the way. Two slammed home, the other two going straight through the first two. The surprise was all too evident on Halt's face, then he recomposed himself. He had always known Will was better than him. This had merely proved it.

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"Will, you've learned all you can from me." Turk said.

"Ok. I think it may be time to get back to my fief anyways. Gilan must be having a fun time trying to take care of Castle Araluen." Will said, only half joking. Gilan was the Ranger at Castle Araluen whenever Halt and Will were called away. Because it was such a big important fief, it needed constant maintaining.

Turk smiled. He liked Will. He was brave, determined, loyal, and you wouldn't want to be his next target.

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Halt dropped a folder on front of Will. "We have a case."

"Oh really?" Will said.

"Ten thousand royals gone missing from Highcliff's treasury. Their Ranger is out because of another case." Halt read.

"More than simple bandits." Will stated.

Half an hour later, they rode off.

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Hm, shorter than I remembered...meh. Still rather long. Oh well. Review please? I know, short chapter, but still very necessary, next one (should) have more action. I forget.