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Chapter 2

"Gil, I'm gonna get you for this," Halt mumbled under his breath. Swinging his leg over Abelard, he stalked off inside. People walking inside after him gave a fearful look to him and decided to wait until later to get lunch. Since Halt was a Ranger, and he was the legendary Ranger (who could kill bears with his bare hands and was 9 feet tall), and he looked very, very grumpy, people knew enough to stay away from him. Far away from him. As the door slammed open, the owner sighed. They must be out of coffee again, he thought to himself. People inside were immediately silenced by his grizzly glare, even though Halt barely glanced at him.

"What may I get you?" the owner politely asked.

"Coffee," Halt roughly said. "Give me all you have,"

The owner twiddled his thumbs (literally), and sheepishly said, "Sorry, sir, but we have just ran out…Please come again!" Suddenly retreating back into the safe shadows of the bar, he dashed into the kitchen.

"Huh, what a chicken," Halt nodded to himself as he stalked back outside to ask Pauline if she had any coffee. She always does, he said as he stroked Abelard's mane.

Of course she does, Abelard replied, stressing the 'of' sarcastically. And sighing the horse equivalent of a sigh, they shaggy horse and its master rode off to the castle.

Meanwhile…

"Gil," Will asked in a worried tone, "Are you sure Halt will like this?"

"Of course he won't!" Gilan replied cheerfully. "That's the point! He doesn't like spring, so doesn't it make sense to make it more painful for him?"

Will looked at Gil and slowly nodded once. "Sure," he replied, still quite unsure about it. Sometimes he got a little worried for Gilan and the inner workings of his mind.

Aren't you so proud of me? I updated in the middle of the week. Hope you like it! :P I think this chapter was better than the first, but I'll let you decide that. This was short too…