"What?" the griffon asked, turning back, but all he saw was a blur of silver and a tunnel of disturbed rainfall in the human's wake as he ran off. The guards he had borrowed from Goldtooth gave startled cries after witnessing the human's sudden departure. He spared a glance at the corpse of the dragon on the ground for a moment, not really listening to the insistence of his accompanying guards that they should leave. It had been a dead drake walking anyway, for there was no way it was going to get out of the kingdom alive after what it had done here. If he knew the human, him killing the dragon had been a foregone conclusion. So why did Handy seem so weirded out when Joachim found him?