p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"strongspan style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"Chapter 1/span/strong/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Will and Halt was riding on Tug and Abelard on a small road that went through a rather large forest. The annual gathering was supposed to be held for the next two weeks in a spot around one and a half days' worth of riding. Halt had noticed that Will was awfully quiet, almost like right after they had come back home from Skandia. Then Will had often been caught in some memory from his time in the northern country. But he had moved past this, and Halt knew that the months Will had spent enslaved and drugged had taken a great turn on him but now he didn't talk at all. Now he was getting worried./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Something wrong? Halt asked trying to sound like it was just a usual question./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Will who still got startled at the question looked at Halt for a good 5 seconds before answering./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-No, why would it be?/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Halt raised an eyebrow and said sarcastically:/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Oh, I don't know, maybe that you were kidnapped for nearly a year and tomorrow you're going to meet everyone again. Also, you're going to be evaluated and that should make you nervous because you've missed a lot of training. But maybe that's just me./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Okay, okay, I'm worried about everyone knowing, do you know if anyone except Gilan and Crowley know about the…, Will asked too embarrassed to look at his mentor./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Warmweed? I hope that Crowley had brains enough to not tell every ranger about that part, but I know that he sent out a report telling them that you were back. But knowing my "dear" friend, I don't know, and you should be prepared anyway, rumours spread quickly./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-You're right, I'm going to have to tell everyone, aren't I? Will asked and Halt saw how troubled the young boy was by this./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-That's your decision to make./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Will sighed and increased the speed that they were riding in as they had slowed down a bit while they were taking. Halt putts himself on Wills left side if he would like to talk again. As he thought they had been riding for maybe half an hour when Will asked him something./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Do you think I will make it through the evaluations, like passing not with flying colours but getting to continue to study next year?/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"He sounded so worried that Halt didn't have the heart to joke about it./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-You'll maybe pass, I believe you will but you have only been home for a little over five months so it would be understandable if you didn't. Crowley knows and expect me he is the only person you need to tell if something is troubling you./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Yeah, you're right, Will said looking more secure than before./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Maybe tell Gilan to, or he will go all question'y like you two always get and it would be bad for everyone. Will chuckled at that and it almost made Halt use one of his rare smiles to see his apprentice this happy./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-If you're worried about the tests, we could camp in that clearing over there and practice some, Halt said and pointed into the woods on Will side where you could see a small opening in the trees./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Yes, thank you!/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"They both turned their horses to the direction and made their way to the clearing. As Will got of Tug he thought he saw something in the corner of his eye and when he looked up at Halt, he could see that his mentor also had seen movement in the same direction. Halt to Wills surprise sighed and rolled his eye while flicking his throwing knife into the woods faster than Will could blink. At the same time something came flying at Will but instead of hitting him it buried itself ten centimeters above his head in a tree. Looking up he saw an arrow with a combination of feathers that he recognized, it was Gilan's./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-You two need to be more observant, Gilan teased making an entrance with Blaze a few meters behind him./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Gilan turned towards Halt and handed him his throwing knife./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-You know very well that if I didn't know it was you that were trying to sneak up on us you would be very dead right now, Halt argued locking his steady glaze with Gilan's./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-And if I wanted, I could've put that arrow into either one of you, Gilan argued back. -Why are we camping so early, it a few hours' worth of daylight left?/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-We're doing some training for Will because of the evaluation, Halt said./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-How did you move so quietly? Will asked truly amazed by his friend's quiet movements and maybe because he wanted to change the subject./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-I wasn't that good, you spotted me after all. But I could teach you although it takes a lot of training, Gilan said brushing of the compliment./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Will breathed in as if he would say something but he was interrupted by Halt./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-If you two are done bickering you could help out setting up the camp./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Okay, Will and Gilan said in chorus./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"They all unpacked their camping equipment from the saddlebags and setting up two of the thin bedrolls. Will went to fetch some firewood to start a small fire they could cook and make coffee over. When he came back with a bundle of dry twigs Halt and Gilan was building a small circle with rocks where they were going to lighten the fire. Will heard that they were talking about something but when he came close, they stopped talking fast. He dumped the twigs in the small circle of rocks and prepared to lit the fire./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-What were you talking about, Will asked as he started to drag his saxe knife up and down a steel rod creating sparks./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Nothing, Gilan answered quickly almost sounding desperate./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Nothing? Will said mistrusting./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Halt gave Gilan a deadly glare before turning to Will trying to figure out how to tell the boy what Gilan had told him./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Will and Halt was riding on Tug and Abelard on a small road that went through a rather large forest. The annual gathering was supposed to be held for the next two weeks in a spot around one and a half days' worth of riding. Halt had noticed that Will was awfully quiet, almost like right after they had come back home from Skandia. Then Will had often been caught in some memory from his time in the northern country. But he had moved past this, and Halt knew that the months Will had spent enslaved and drugged had taken a great turn on him but now he didn't talk at all. Now he was getting worried./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Something wrong? Halt asked trying to sound like it was just a usual question./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Will who still got startled at the question looked at Halt for a good 5 seconds before answering./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-No, why would it be?/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Halt raised an eyebrow and said sarcastically:/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Oh, I don't know, maybe that you were kidnapped for nearly a year and tomorrow you're going to meet everyone again. Also, you're going to be evaluated and that should make you nervous because you've missed a lot of training. But maybe that's just me./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Okay, okay, I'm worried about everyone knowing, do you know if anyone except Gilan and Crowley know about the…, Will asked too embarrassed to look at his mentor./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Warmweed? I hope that Crowley had brains enough to not tell every ranger about that part, but I know that he sent out a report telling them that you were back. But knowing my "dear" friend, I don't know, and you should be prepared anyway, rumours spread quickly./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-You're right, I'm going to have to tell everyone, aren't I? Will asked and Halt saw how troubled the young boy was by this./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-That's your decision to make./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Will sighed and increased the speed that they were riding in as they had slowed down a bit while they were taking. Halt putts himself on Wills left side if he would like to talk again. As he thought they had been riding for maybe half an hour when Will asked him something./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Do you think I will make it through the evaluations, like passing not with flying colours but getting to continue to study next year?/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"He sounded so worried that Halt didn't have the heart to joke about it./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-You'll maybe pass, I believe you will but you have only been home for a little over five months so it would be understandable if you didn't. Crowley knows and expect me he is the only person you need to tell if something is troubling you./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Yeah, you're right, Will said looking more secure than before./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Maybe tell Gilan to, or he will go all question'y like you two always get and it would be bad for everyone. Will chuckled at that and it almost made Halt use one of his rare smiles to see his apprentice this happy./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-If you're worried about the tests, we could camp in that clearing over there and practice some, Halt said and pointed into the woods on Will side where you could see a small opening in the trees./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Yes, thank you!/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"They both turned their horses to the direction and made their way to the clearing. As Will got of Tug he thought he saw something in the corner of his eye and when he looked up at Halt, he could see that his mentor also had seen movement in the same direction. Halt to Wills surprise sighed and rolled his eye while flicking his throwing knife into the woods faster than Will could blink. At the same time something came flying at Will but instead of hitting him it buried itself ten centimeters above his head in a tree. Looking up he saw an arrow with a combination of feathers that he recognized, it was Gilan's./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-You two need to be more observant, Gilan teased making an entrance with Blaze a few meters behind him./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Gilan turned towards Halt and handed him his throwing knife./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-You know very well that if I didn't know it was you that were trying to sneak up on us you would be very dead right now, Halt argued locking his steady glaze with Gilan's./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-And if I wanted, I could've put that arrow into either one of you, Gilan argued back. -Why are we camping so early, it a few hours' worth of daylight left?/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-We're doing some training for Will because of the evaluation, Halt said./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-How did you move so quietly? Will asked truly amazed by his friend's quiet movements and maybe because he wanted to change the subject./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-I wasn't that good, you spotted me after all. But I could teach you although it takes a lot of training, Gilan said brushing of the compliment./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Will breathed in as if he would say something but he was interrupted by Halt./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-If you two are done bickering you could help out setting up the camp./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Okay, Will and Gilan said in chorus./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"They all unpacked their camping equipment from the saddlebags and setting up two of the thin bedrolls. Will went to fetch some firewood to start a small fire they could cook and make coffee over. When he came back with a bundle of dry twigs Halt and Gilan was building a small circle with rocks where they were going to lighten the fire. Will heard that they were talking about something but when he came close, they stopped talking fast. He dumped the twigs in the small circle of rocks and prepared to lit the fire./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-What were you talking about, Will asked as he started to drag his saxe knife up and down a steel rod creating sparks./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Nothing, Gilan answered quickly almost sounding desperate./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"-Nothing? Will said mistrusting./span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="background: transparent;" /span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="background: transparent;"Halt gave Gilan a deadly glare before turning to Will trying to figure out how to tell the boy what Gilan had told him./span/span/span/span/p