The matter at Hand...

[Jake]

Jake had seen the other two that he had ran into but they were of no concern to Jake. Jake was simply upset with Vaalic and his actions. He approched Vaalic slowly. Vaalic towered over Jake, his Elven size never give away his strength.

"Yes, yes I will stand by you Vaalic."

Jake looked away from Vaalic.
"But...", with a simple movment Jake's fist struck Vaalic gut. Vaalic stood back from the blow an held himself then dropped to one knee. Jake approched him again and sat down on one kneee before him.

"Next time please go to your friends first for aid before wondering off far from your home and protection. You know the Dragon Mistress can not be trust in this kind of situation or at least with out caution. What if you had meet up with the attackers as I did you could have been hurt and killed and no one whould have had the faithest idel as you what happened to you, not to mention you could have hidden your family at the first sign of danger well before now. You no better then that my old friend."

Jake stood and put out his hand to Vaalic and helped him to his feet. They then started off again for Freeport. Jake had been thinking, he wondered how Kitiara was doing. It now seemed so long ago that they meet. And wonders if they will ever meet again.