Yeah, but like I said, my own fault. [Kai scoots around so he's facing him, lifting his left arm and showing off the recently healed and jagged scar on his forearm.] I was recording him, trying to get evidence to show Karasu. Couldn't resist showing the damn thing off while I walked away, so he did this to get me to drop it.

[Worked really well, too.] That'll teach me to block without a spell.

The forest, huh? That sounds...really nice. Having a house out there, I mean, and not just camping in a tent for days. Or not even that, depending. My friend 'Jem, back home, she lived in a little village, you should've seen her reaction the first time I took her to a city. Clung to me like a leech.

[He half-grins at the memory. She still wasn't used to places like that.]