The next day was filled with activity. Alleria was up before the sun, preparing food for the way. She had bathed in one of the lakes, running there with the wind to be back faster.

The Bounty Hunter raised his brows as he saw her wet hair. She blushed a little but met his eyes and shrugged. "No need to smell of sex when meeting a friend."

Davion was unbelievably slow this morning. He seemed to want to delay them and the meeting with the Juggernaut as much as possible. Alleria was very patient, though. And Gondar was extremely curious about the relationship between Alleria and the Juggernaut, which made the warrior behave like that. As soon as he was ready, he sat in front of the cave. He had checked his weapons twice, as he had his backpack, a half mask covered his nose and mouth and he had his shoulder armour on. Now he waited.

It was almost midday when Davion stepped onto the grass next to him. He had his full armour on, shield in one hand, sword in its sheath. When the woman followed, he said something about being hungry but she wasn't patient enough for that. She pushed him forward and then bumped his helmet against his chest. He took it and frowned but didn't say anything else as she stalked past him, quiver on her back, a satchel and her bow slung over her shoulder.

She started in the right direction and Davion followed. The Bounty Hunter went invisible and checked the vicinity of the cave to make sure they had left as little tracks as possible. He erased what he could and only when he was satisfied he followed the two humans. They could have gone to the platform, which could take them directly to the town wars, but Alleria said she had to meet Yurnero in some inn. He had written that he was staying at this inn for a few weeks before he went to a war again. At least, if he wasn't there, the inn keeper would be able to tell them where he had gone to.

It took them one day to reach a town. From there they used a flight master and his mounts to get to the inn. The griffons landed directly next to the building. It was midday and Davion was whining about being hungry again. For him, the town wars had to be heaven because there he'd never feel hunger and thirst.

In the inn, Davion steered towards a table while Alleria asked one of the women serving drinks and food about the Juggernaut.

Gondar was still invisible and he intended to stay that way for most of the time. Too many creatures around for his liking. Much safer not to be seen. He followed Davion and touched his shoulder before sitting down next to him on the bench. The warrior nodded slightly to signal the Hunter that he had felt it, that he knew he was there.

A woman with elven ears but with a too green skin colour and too big canines to be pure elf appeared and asked Davion what he wanted to drink. She ignored his scowl and smiled politely while she waited for his answer (her polite smile was only a tad disturbing with those canines).

"I'll wait until my friend's back. We'll order then. Please."

At the word please the smile of the woman grew warmer even though the warrior was still scowling. "As you wish."

It didn't take Alleria long to come back, the Juggernaut right behind her. She was laughing while the man had his arm around her shoulder and Davion's scowl got deeper.

"Dragon Knight." The Juggernaut greeted the warrior with a short nod. He had his usual mask on so his face was completely hidden. Gondar had never seen him without the mask but since almost no one had ever seen him without his half mask it was only fair.

"Juggernaut." It was definitely a growl and Alleria raised her brows at him. The Juggernaut ignored it and sat down, turning back to the woman and simply shutting the warrior out. "He still at your side all the time?"

Alleria shook her head as she looked at Davion shortly. "No. Only when I'm meeting you. Some strange case of jealousy."

"He does know that he has no reason to be jealous?"

Now she rolled her eyes. "Something about you only pretending or such."

Now the Juggernaut turned towards Davion, letting his eyes travel over his body slowly. "I would show you how I'm not pretending to be gay. But you are so not my type."

"Yeah, you like them pretty."

He laughed at those words from the woman at his side. "I do. You know me well. So, did you find someone who might catch my eye? Rylai left, going with some woman and she wrote me some time ago that she's living in her palace again. With the woman. Basically, I have no one who goes to town wars with me at the moment and no one to shag. Because you decided to have some sex time with him." He motioned towards the Knight dismissively. "Not that you don't going with him would've changed something about the shagging part but at least we could be killing them all in one war after the other."

"Oh come on, you left me alone for sex time with some git, too, once. And as soon as I got your letter I came here."

"Yeah, and I am grateful for that. Does that mean you want to join me on my next town war?"

The waitress appeared again. "Beer, please." Davion said without looking at her, his eyes fixed on the Juggernaut. "I want something fruity but please with actual fruit in it and not only fruit flavour." Alleria. "Only some water." The Juggernaut. Just when the woman wanted to leave and Gondar thought he had to get visible to get something, too, Alleria stopped her. "Wait, make two of those fruity ones."

The waitress smiled and for a second her gaze flickered over the Bounty Hunter. He tensed because he was sure that the woman could see him but she said nothing more and didn't look again. At least she knew how to be discrete. And it was only logical that the ones working in this inn could see invisible creatures. They probably had lots of protection around the house, too.

"Yes," Alleria continued, "I already asked Davion if we'd like to join you in the next town war. He wasn't overly joyous about it" the understatement of the year, Gondar thought, "but he said yes. Yeah, I know, you'd have preferred me coming with you without him. But we are together so we do things together, too. And there is one more thing: we are three now and we'd all three come with you."

"I knew he'd want to come, too. It's not so bad, at least his fighting is halfway decent." Another dismissive wave of his hand.

"Hey, you do know that I'm sitting here and that I can hear you!"

It was disturbing, Gondar thought, when the Juggernaut looked at Davion, nothing of his emotions discernible because of the mask. He could be smiling or he could be scowling. He shrugged. "I now, I don't care." He focused on Alleria again, who looked as if she was trying hard not to laugh. "Okay, as I said, decent fighter. Who's the third one?"

"The Bounty Hunter."

There was silence for several seconds. Their drinks came then and Alleria paid, clearly annoying Davion with it, though the Hunter couldn't figure out why. The woman put the second fruit drink near where Gondar was sitting but not right in front of him.

"You want to fight with the Bounty Hunter in a team? How comes?"

Davion leaned back, his drink in one hand and let his gaze wander around the room. He clearly let Alleria do the explaining now. "We, um, kind of met during our trip through some forest. We get along rather well and so we asked him to stay with us."

"You have a ménage á trois?" Yurnero's shock was evident in his voice, the mask hiding only his visible emotions. "With the Bounty Hunter?"

Alleria actually blushed at his tone and Gondar had to smile at that. But she wasn't ashamed. "Yes, we do. Davion, Gondar and me."

Now the Juggernaut laughed. "Oh man." He leaned over and slapped the Knight on his shoulder, hard enough to make him spill some beer even with his armour on. "You got yourself a man and a woman. Good job." He continued to laugh. "Of course he can come, too. Wait," he looked at the forth drink on the table. "he's here, right? Has been here all the time? Damn invisibility."

Gondar thought this might be a good time to get visible. It was only polite now and he didn't want to be rude to Alleria's friend.

"Juggernaut." He nodded towards him. "Pleased to meet you as an ally today."

"Hello Bounty Hunter." He looked him up and down. "I wonder how someone as scrawny as you was able to get someone to want to have sex with him."

The Hunter stared, dumbfounded. Alleria rammed her elbow into his ribs and the Juggernaut laughed. "Oh come on, it was a joke! He isn't pretty enough for my taste but he isn't bad looking. Welcome to our team, Hunter." He held his hand out and Gondar took it. "Nice to have you. Better with us than against us."

He was still a little unsure what he thought about the (extremely bad) joke of the Juggernaut but he was positive that this town war would be a good one.

"Who'll be the fifth in our team? Do you know someone?" Alleria asked.

"No. My friends are all off to do some stuff or to have some sex time with their new partners. Unbelievable."

"I know someone." Davion said.